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...many papers and put dozens of others under close surveillance. Last week the Menderes government took a more drastic step that seemed to go beyond the boundaries of preventing violence in Turkey. It pushed a new law through the Assembly that provided for heavy fines and prison sentences on newspapermen whose writing "could be harmful to the political or financial prestige of the state...
...publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with a touch of the outspokenness that has made her husband famous: "[Publishers' wives] have an excellent sense of humor ... All lords of the press take themselves very seriously, so [we] have taken the lines of least resistance and are gay . . . Most newspapermen think that they form public opinion. This is somewhat true . . . [but] perhaps these little-known wives have more power than is generally known. Is not the female of the species stronger and more deadly than the male? . . . Before the last [G.O.P.] presidential nomination, [Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler...
Along with three other Harvard members already appointed, the committee will make its selections after April 15, the final date for the fellowships applications. Their choices will be the 17th annual group of newspapermen appointed for a year of background study at Harvard. These fellowships were established on a bequest from Agnes W. Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal...
Pella showed great political skill in moving in first for a showdown with his own party; for neither De Gasperi nor the heads of other factions in the party were ready for Pella to fall. This week Pella called in newspapermen and confidently announced that the "transition government" phase was over; in the new year he would set up a new kind of government with new men, pledged to 1) better distribution of wealth; 2) better housing; 3) defense of the state; 4) working toward "truly international solidarity...
...nullifying the value of the press conference by turning it into a show. Said the New York Times: "The widest dissemination of news is all to the good. [But] there is the danger that the participants will become mere actors in a gigantic show, and that goes both for newspapermen who ask the questions and the President who answers them...