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Dodging the Knives. The man at the head of the USIA is Edward Roscoe Murrow, 53, who left a $200,000-a-year job with CBS a year ago to tell the world about democracy for a salary of $21,000. Murrow is the first USIA director to sit in regularly on top meetings of the Kennedy Administration; he at tends the sessions of the National Security Council and the thrice-weekly staff meet ings held by Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "I have no illusions about being Secretary of State." says Murrow. "I just want a chance...
This week Murrow and his top aides will trek up to Capitol Hill and argue that the agency's budget should be in creased by 12% to $125 million for the fiscal year beginning July. Murrow wants to step up the Voice's current program ming of 730 hours a week around the world to compete with Russia's 1,067. He wants to distribute more cheap editions of U.S. books abroad. He wants to send more labor advisers and students over seas. ("The best kind of communication," intones Murrow, "is still face to face...
Among the subjects routinely satirized are the U.N., the Russians, TV commercials, Edward R. Murrow, and fallout shelters. Only a rather childish mind would think calling a Russian girl "Beulah Beulahvich" is funny, but Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul do it anyway in a scene about two Soviets in a satellite. After that howler is repeated, Beulah reads a letter from the government saying. "On Stalin Prize certificate for 1952, read 'Lenin.'" Very funy, or at least it would be if the joke weren't older than the actors. And so it goes, in so many scenes: the tried...
...Club is also trying to arrange meetings with Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency; Attorney General Robert Kennedy; Under Secretary of State George W. Ball; McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for national security affairs; Charles Bohlen, former Ambassador to Russia; and Maxwell Taylor, the President's special adviser on defense...
...story and a far-ranging curiosity that has roamed from the Far East to the U.S. Far West, Brinkley has made his reports with a quiet and respectful straightforwardness. He has neither the hollow clangor of those doomsaying voices of oldtime radio nor the portentous solemnity of Edward R. Murrow. whose excellent programs were frequently made irritating by the narrator's apparent attempt to be a grand intermediator between the unwashed audience and the unvarnished truth. Brinkley has also resisted the temptation to live up to his own reputation for being "dry and witty," which might have...