Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many branches of the Government are quick to respond with categorical denials. Admiral John T. Hayward, head of Navy research and development, says that the AEC's labs are doing all they can, and doing it well. Senators on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy agree. All authorities insist that while other novel nuclear weapons may be ripe for testing, the fabled N-bomb is not. Some think it will not be ready for nearly five years...
Worthington Miner, who has had a hand in producing such TV milestones as Studio One and Play of the Week, told the committee that sponsors often insist on contracts specifying a minimum number of killings or shootings per program. He also went out of his way to serve as a sort of one-man Berlitz course in Madavenue lingo. Example: "longterm recall" is something vital that admen ascribe to viewers who remember a given show for more than, say, ten minutes. But Miner's outstanding contribution was one of those sponsor-interference anecdotes that spring from...
...come to expect frank, explicit and even intimate information about the health of its President. But John Kennedy's press aides have been reluctant to discuss the President's back injury, and his doctors have refused to say anything at all. If, as they insist, it is only "a minor ailment," then by their reticence they have needlessly caused confusion and concern...
...Princes Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong would split up power between them once they take over Laos. Here, too, the outlook was dim. Souvanna is recognized by the Communists as Premier, and 2,000 good troops commanded by Captain Kong Le support him. Both Kong Le and Souvanna insist that they do not want a Communist Laos. But Souphanouvong, a Mephistophelean-looking fellow in his sideburns and trim mustache, is a hardened Communist guerrilla. His sneaker-shod troops total 12,000 and are veterans of jungle fighting. It is obviously the winning team-and getting stronger every...
...whom Castro calls a "lackey of imperialism," intercepted several tons of arms-Czech submachine guns, ammunition, grenades-shipped from Cuba to isolated points along the Venezuelan coast. The Venezuelan government, which is not anxious to arouse its volatile populace, issued an official denial of the reports, but intelligence sources insist that the shipments have been going on since December, and a Venezuelan official lamented last week: "We have a long and open coastline. They can smuggle that stuff in virtually anywhere. We catch what...