Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE PAPER: THE ORDEAL OF THE AMERICAN CITY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Boston and Boston's Mayor Kevin White are featured in the second of a three-part series on the urban crisis...
...ploy, Izvestia reported, was to play certain tunes at prearranged times, thus enabling a British spy to forecast such events and so prove to local recruits that he was a bona fide spook. The BBC dismissed the charges as ridiculous, and in its own sly way mocked the paper's paranoia: "If there are any agents on the job in Moscow waiting for today's message," said a solemn-toned announcer last week, "here it is." There followed the theme from Come Spy With Me, a recent London stage farce...
...consistently gained as that of Costa has waned. He was whisked away from the steps of Rio's downtown Teatro Municipal, where he had just addressed a graduating class. Also reported arrested: Helio Fernandes, publisher of the newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa; Osvaldo Peralva, director of the opposition paper Correio da Manha; several high officials of former regimes; and Singer-Composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. His stage play, Roda Viva, was recently raided by right-wing thugs and its leading lady was tossed nude into the street, supposedly because it portrayed sexual intercourse on the stage. In addition, as many...
...Adolph Ochs, who had wanted his daughter to marry a newspaperman to perpetuate the dynasty. Sulzberger had no journalistic experience, but swiftly proved himself to be an ingenious and resourceful executive, first as an assistant to the general manager, than as vice president, and finally, in 1935, as the paper's fourth publisher. Under his stewardship, the Times brightened its pages with more pictures and a crisper, more readable writing style, expanded its coverage with greater emphasis on personality studies and news analysis. He allowed his editors wide latitude in day-to-day operations, engaged in debate rather than...
...family portraits a gallery of near-grotesques. Alfred ranted against "speculators, stock-exchange Jews, share swindlers and similar parasites"; then he borrowed from the banker Salomon Oppenheim to meet his payroll. Paranoiacally fearful of Socialist tendencies among his workers, he hired an agent to inspect even the "used toilet paper" for seditious notes. He also located his office above a stable so that he could inhale the "healthgiving" aroma of manure...