Word: news
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister of the U.S. embassy. German-fluent Ambassador Dowling is equally at home with aging chiefs of state. In his most recent post, as Ambassador to Korea (1956-59), he won high marks for his cool and tactful dealings with irascible, immovable old (84) President Syngman Rhee. When news of Dowling's appointment was flashed to Bonn, Adenauer promptly cabled official approval along with word that he would be "delighted" to welcome an old friend to Bonn...
...traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States." Even today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print in an English-language Pakistani newspaper...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went to bed early. Turning on the radio next morning at his desert cottage at Sde Boker, he heard the news at breakfast that he had won another election. Then his campaign manager helicoptered in from Tel Aviv to tell him he had won the biggest triumph of his political career...
...LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University...
...LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. (6:30 broadcast repeated...