Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During this year's Cuba crisis, the White House invoked news-control measures that approached wartime severity. At the departments of Defense and State, no one was allowed to speak to newsmen without a monitor present or unless the gist of the interview was later reported to a public information officer. Reporters were barred from accompanying the quarantine fleet to the Caribbean. The news, filtered through the White House, often came late. By the time Kennedy announced two inspections of Cuba-bound Soviet ships, there had been...
...divide their time between shopping in the university gastronom and swapping language lessons with Russians. Bachelors live with Russians, Africans or students from Soviet satellites. All clean their own rooms and perform communal chores, such as K.P. and phone duty, assigned by the floor starosta, an elected "elder," or monitor, common to Russian group living...
...waspish review in Friday's CRIMSON accused the Brattle Theatre of failing to advertise the showing of Dan Drasin's Sunday. The Brattle did in fact advertise Sunday in ads in the CRIMSON (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday), the Globe, the Herald and Traveler, the Record-American, the Christian Science Monitor (Thursday-Friday-Saturday), and on WCRB. In addition, the Brattle sent out special news releases on Sunday which were printed by the Globe (in entirety) and the Herald (in part...
Predictably, this accumulation of honors was accompanied by a flood of publicity, including an interview on NBC radio and a speech before U.S. Sportswriters Association in which, according to the Christian Science Monitor, Peabody was "a trifle bashful yet able to express his thoughts entertainingly...
...Maybe there ought to be a political campaigner's uniform," mused the Christian Science Monitor last week, "with helmet, face guard and sundry bulges to make the contender look handsomely fearsome. Americans like their games rugged, hit and rah style." Even so, the sight of the U.S. President, out stumping the country on behalf of lesser Democrats, stirred the Monitor to uneasiness: "National policy takes a little explaining these days. It's not just a matter of hurling slogans. Are we playing the right game...