Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wavering neutrals will be glad to stop yelling at Khrushchev, who frightens them and pays no attention to them, and start yelling at the U.S., which acts the part of a gentleman and in the past has taken their complaints with utmost seriousness. Says USIA Chief Edward R. Murrow: "Editorial writers in the non-Communist-bloc countries have just about exhausted all the known adjectives in expressing their condemnation of the Soviet nuclear tests-but they'll polish up some new ones when we begin testing." Yet the U.S. may certainly be pardoned for feeling that this transitory expression...
...Thursday ranking officials arrived at the White House-Rusk. Dulles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, AEC Chairman Glenn Seaborg, Cold War Adviser Maxwell Taylor, U.S. Information Agency Chief Edward R. Murrow. At 12:45 p.m., Kennedy issued a second statement calling the Soviet announcement "atomic blackmail." Declared the President: "What the Soviet Union is obviously testing is not only nuclear devices but the will and determination of the free world to resist such tactics and to defend freedom.'' The President stated he was confident that the present U.S. nuclear stockpile was capable of defending the free world, once again...
...tour of his European outposts, USIA Director Edward R. Murrow, 53. sent back to Author Harry (Only in America) Golden a personal report on what it felt like to watch the Iron Curtain clank down in Berlin. "The hogs," wrote Murrow, "have put up fences to keep the people...
Putting old targets into transatlantic context, he started in on Joseph P. Kennedy-"You may recall he was in the embassy here in charge of Edward R. Murrow"-and went on spraying in all directions: "Our cars are different. You know, clocks up front and in back-different time zones." Turning Soviet-American relations into a latter-day bestiary, he noted that "our dogs are affectionate and can fetch newspapers. Russian dogs don't show affection, but they are all engineers." Getting around to women, he reached for a rare pun, said: "Women are getting more and more materialistic...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Guest: the U.S. Information Agency's Edward R. Murrow...