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This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...
...deluge of profundity concerning the delicacy and portent of relations between the western democracies and Russia, which has been pouring from the typewriters of American journalists, has temporarily obscured the increasing threat to world peace inherent in the internal structure and probable ambitions of the two Spanish speaking, fascist-type nations--Spain and Argentina...
...portent emphasized by stern and conservative language, "One World Or None" jolts into sharp focus the problem created by the release of atomic energy. The 79-page report leaves no question as to the gravity of the problem and the need for decisive and immediate action toward its solution. And the authors--Walter Lippmann, General Arnold, and thirteen top-ranking scientists--conclude that the only way to this solution lies in a sovereign world organization designed to eradicate both the right and the possibility of waging...
...every sign & portent this would be India's year of decision-a decision that would be bitterly contested by all three partners to India's future: the British Raj, 256 million Hindus, 92 million Moslems...
When Frank Krayer, Julio Vielman, anl Bob Snow nosed out the Brown medley relay entry by a touch, it was a portent of things to come. By even less of a split second, Jerry Gorman nosed out Brown's Phil Carson in the 220 free-style, with Ted Norris of the Crimson coming in third. Gorman again beat the favored Carson in the 100 free-style which followed the dive...