Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apart from the Russians and their six Eastern European satellites, only the French and Italian Communist Parties ever belonged to the Cominform. From a shabby headquarters in Bucharest it waged an increasingly desultory paper war against Tito. When Stalin's successors finally denounced Stalin himself, the Cominform was doomed. Last week in Moscow, largely as a gesture to Tito, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan announced its end, and professed to find the whole thing unimportant. "They put out a paper," said Mikoyan, "I think." Tito congratulated Russia's new bosses on their "brave and bold" course, but just...
Champagne corks popped in a Paris city room last week to greet the birth of a major French daily: Le Temps de Paris. For competitors, the cork-popping sounded the opening barrage in an all-out circulation war. The new afternoon paper, a fat (for France), 40-page tabloid with heavy backing from businessmen (initial investment: about $4,000,000), set out to combine the dash that is all too common in the French press with the responsibility that is all too rare. After readers snapped up its first press run of 480,000, Le Temps began printing...
...country's biggest paper, France-Soir (circ. 1,300,000), leaped to the challenge. With a staff strengthened by 14 new hands, France-Soir jumped from 14 to 20 pages, splashed pictures on its front page, and plugged a contest offering 50 million francs ($142,857) for the best characterization of "the ideal Frenchman." Little Paris-Presse (circ. 160,000) boosted itself from 14 to 16 pages and put in a crossword-puzzle contest. Stuffy, neutralist Le Monde, small (circ. 166,000) but influential, fought the new opposition with a front-page editorial: "Big newspapers capable of exercising...
...plight of the nation's farmers, viewed from urban insularity, is generally seen as either a dull academic question or a potential trouble-maker in the November elections. Hucksters of both parties have made the "farm problem," a matter of narrow interest, using a flood of paper panaceas to obscure the real existence of a weak sector of the economy. Careless subsidy plans, log-rolling, and philosophical battle cries have replaced intelligent efforts to solve one of the nation's most important domestic problems...
Presiding at a Gala General Motors press conference in the ballroom of the Somerset Hotel, Mr. Garrett (vice-president of General Motors) pointed out that the car which would actually drive itself was no longer a fantasy. --Same paper, same date...