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...plane had been shot down inside Soviet airspace. "At no time was the plane closer to Soviet land territory than about 30 miles," said the U.S. But Nikita Khrushchev did not wait for any facts. He called a press conference. Some 300 correspondents, photographers and TV and newsreel cameramen jammed the Kremlin's newly air-conditioned Sverdlov Hall for the show. But this time Khrushchev's spy-plane story did not stand...
...covers in all. At one time nine Bachians were on the staff of LIFE (Bob Landry, John Florea, Mark Kauffman, George Strock, Hank Walker, John Dominis, Peter Stackpole, Harold Trudeau, John Wilkes). West Coast newspapers are full of Bach alumni; others are aiming the nation's TV and newsreel cameras. In World War II, 146 were combat cameramen, and four died in action. What Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge was to Shakespeare, Fremont High's spry, spectacled Clarence Bach is to news photography...
...newsreel cameras he put on a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President...
...Colonial Room of the Richmond Hotel in Augusta, 30 newsmen gathered with TV and newsreel photographers. The President walked in, his eyes moist. In the din he said: "What I have to say concerns Secretary Dulles." A reporter asked: "What was that, Mr. President?" The room hushed, and Ike repeated: "It concerns Secretary Dulles. I had a conversation this morning with him, and in view of the findings the doctors have made . . . he has definitely made up his mind to submit his resignation." The medical findings, the President added, "are not of the kind, so far as I am aware...
...disillusionment with Castro among his old supporters of the middle and upper classes is becoming obvious. Last week, when his picture appeared in a newsreel in Havana's well-to-do Miramar suburb, not a person applauded. In Washington, Castro's staunchest congressional friend, Oregon's Charles O. Porter, said: "I do not think Castro is a dictator yet, but I do see an ominous trend...