Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While somewhat of a paper organization at this point, the NDC will meet in Minneapolis in early October to build and organize; in December a general conference to plan policies is anticipated. If the NDC lives up to its founders expectations, it will be a major force in shaping policy when the Democrats take up the role of the opposition this January. Only later as 1970 draws closer will its partisan electoral nature become more noticeable...
...combat aircraft, including 40 SU-7 all-weather fighter-bombers, and 110 Mig-21s that can fly higher and faster than Israeli Skyhawks. Since other Arab forces have been similarly re-equipped, the balance of firepower has been tilted heavily in the Arabs' favor-at least on the paper order of battle (see chart...
...Angeles Times' political editor, Carl Greenberg, intoned that "when newsmen are slugged, clubbed, arrested and generally harassed in the performances of their duties, we are approaching the end of freedom." Daley swung back with a so-called "white paper" (see THE NATION). There would have been no trouble at all, he insisted, if reporters and TV cameras had not been on hand to provide the demonstrators with an audience. As for newspaper coverage, Daley said, it was biased...
...Russians invade Czechoslovakia? If the Moscow newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya is to be believed, it was mostly because they could no longer abide the freedom that Alexander Dubček had granted the Czech press. "The reintroduction of bourgeois press freedom led to the most destructive consequences," declared the Moscow paper in an editorial explaining the invasion. While it lasted, moreover, it was a freedom exercised furiously, with a passion pent up by two decades of enforced Communist conformity. And, despite the Russian tanks, it is not yet completely dead...
...paper, the 1968-69 season, which opens this week, looks indistinguishable from 1967-68. Onscreen, viewers will find a few new wrinkles. Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Big Valley, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons encouraged a trend by all featuring at least one character who was a widow or a widower. This year the trend becomes a stampede. In addition, the big, new angle is interracial - there is a vast increase in roles played by Ne groes. Whether all this signifies a vast improvement in entertainment is, of course, problematical...