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...President," wrote Reston, "is the chief spokesman and newsmaker. He is releasing not only important news of the White House, but, as a device to limit the questioning, secondary news of the departments as well. Accordingly, he is attracting at every conference many more reporters than Eisenhower's norm." As one solution, Reston suggested briefer questions: "It wouldn't hurt if the reporters learned from Kennedy the arts of brevity and precisions of speech. Many of them are now following the example of the old lady who said, 'How do I know what I think until...
...anonymous spouses . . . There are 23 'factories' in this particular commune, each one employing from 100 to 700 women workers. The workers, many of them older women, crouch on their heels, blow on their stiff fingers, and try their clumsy best to keep their output up to the norm...
...pointed out that increased work by the students could raise the 40 per cent of concentrators in Social Relations who graduate with Honors to a total nearer the college norm of slightly over 50 per cent...
...rugged Green Bay Packers knew they would have to foil the two grand old men of the gallant Philadelphia Eagles: Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, 34, and Center-Linebacker Chuck Bednarik, 35, both talking about retiring after that day's championship play-off of the National Football League. But in the second period Van Brocklin coolly passed to Halfback Tommy McDonald for a 35-yd. touchdown. Then a crunching tackle by Bednarik put Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, the league's leading scorer, out of the game with a pinched nerve in his shoulder. When the Packers were driving...
...first team of the pro scouts' All-America (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week he was tapped by the newly formed Minnesota Vikings to become the first man chosen in the annual draft of college stars by the National Football League. Second man picked: Wake Forest's Norm Snead, a king-size (6 ft. 4 in., 208 lbs.) quarterback, who was picked by the Washington Redskins although he was snubbed altogether by the wire-service All-Americas...