Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pundits who had been hailing the rising presidential prospects of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller suddenly saw Vice President Nixon's future with new clarity. Wrote the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout: "It is hard to imagine a better springboard for a presidential candidacy...
...dispute your statement of March 23 that Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor and newly elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is ". . . the first newspaperman in the Chamber's long line of 32 presidents...
Secrecy was absolutely essential. The U.S. did not want the Soviet Union to find out about Project Argus and monitor it. And President Eisenhower did not want the world to know, when he announced the one-year test suspension (beginning Oct. 31), that the U.S. was about to carry out secret nuclear tests in the South Atlantic...
...travel 300 miles up, he had to get them fired in an almost perfectly vertical course, a delicate task in rough seas. The rockets had to go off at precisely the times when the U.S.'s orbiting Explorer IV satellite, sent aloft in July, was in position to monitor radiation from the explosions. Taking the high-wind and rough-sea difficulties into account, Navy experts had estimated Task Force 88's chances of fulfilling Project Argus requirements...
...Cussing. Canham is a gentle, scholarly newsman who started in the trade at the age of eight by taking news items over the telephone for his father, a country publisher in Lisbon, Me. He joined the 17-year-old Monitor after graduation from Bates College in 1925, became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors...