Word: monitored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic news was buried in a routine Tass broadcast servicing newspapers in Central Asia. Picked up by an alert U.S. monitor in the Middle East, it was flashed to Washington, arrived at the White House just as President John Kennedy was leaving for a press conference in the auditorium...
...Nice Boys." Baxter prepped for the Williams presidency at Harvard, where his Ph.D. thesis disproved the idea that the Monitor and the Merrimac were the world's first ironclad ships (the first: France's Gloire in 1859). When he became Master of the newly opened Adams House, Baxter learned the art of running a college. The chance came in 1937 when Williams President Tyler Dennett quit after only three years (he thought the trustees were wasting money). It was Dennett who summed up one of Baxter's main problems: "Nice boys-I mean the well-mannered, sophisticated...
...publicity-conscious president of the National Broadcasting Co. for two years, Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver invented the TV "spectacular," was long on good ideas (the magazine format of Today and Monitor) but too short on high-Trendex programs. Eased out in 1956, Weaver stayed on the fringes of TV, in 1959 joined the McCann-Erickson advertising agency as boss of its international division. Last week, bouncing back to television, 52-year-old Pat Weaver was named president of M-E Productions, the radio and TV subsidiary of McCann's parent, Interpublic, Inc. His new job puts Weaver, long...
...pulled out for Jackson carrying twelve Freedom Riders, six National Guardsmen and 16 newsmen. Once out in the countryside, the bus was convoyed by three planes, two helicopters and 17 highway patrol cars. Bobby Kennedy followed the progress of the convoy by a special telephone rig that let him monitor police radio messages...
...present drift" of the United States Government's policy toward Cuba. The statement has received wide coverage in the national press and in Latin American newspapers; it has inspired a series of four articles in the Boston American, moderately disapproving editorials in the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor, and columns by Arthur Krock (who disapproved) and Max Lerner (who was interested in the dissatisfaction of "young intellectuals"). It has moved a considerable number of persons to write letters of counter-protest to the Harvard Administration...