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...industry turned out a tidy little packet of advice to anxious-to-please politicians. To help "those in public life to present their views by television convincingly," the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters issued Campaigning on TV, an 18-page pamphlet studded with admonitory italics ("You will begin your talk with a large audience -your job is to keep that audience") and containing a long list of dos and don'ts. Samples...
...that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in a troopship headed up the coast. After that, for unending years, life for them will be only the salt and henequen of the Three Marys...
...desk of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, one morning last fortnight, a bulky sealed packet plopped down. It was from General Eisenhower's headquarters in France. Inside were three letters: one addressed to the President of the U.S., one to the chairman of the NATO military standing committee in Washington and one to Defense Secretary Robert Lovett. Lovett delivered the other two with top-secret precautions, then sliced open...
...Packet (v.t.) : To send story material by means other than wire...
...faces and voices are important, though not as important as they used to be. A hundred years ago, when new instructions had to wait for the next packet, an ambassador had to make major decisions on the spot. Today, a diplomat's freedom of action is no greater than his distance from a Teletype. But if the words he speaks are not his own, the manner of his speaking and the energy or tact of his delivery can make a notable difference...