Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First out of the box at the presidential press conference last week was one of the bluntest political questions Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced: How does he feel about the complaints by two G.O.P. right-wingers, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and Pennsylvania's Congressman Richard Simpson, that the President's party leadership is weak? All week long the White House staff had been steaming about the Old Guard mutterings against the President at the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Des Moines (TIME...
...Well, so far as I am concerned," said President Eisenhower at his press conference, "here is some irresponsible reporting." The President was referring directly to a news story describing his relationship with Chief Justice Earl Warren as "cold and distant and marred by disapproval on both sides." Author of the story...
...engineers at Bhilai are in touch with the Kremlin by special radio within the hour. The Communists have guaranteed all the equipment they have sent, and they have trained 370 Indians in Russian mills. Soviet experts are under strict orders to let trainees handle as much machinery and press as many buttons as they wish. This does wonders for the confidence of young engineers, who say that in German factories they are treated like sightseers...
Last week both sides did say something. At a press conference in Tunis, big, stoop-shouldered M'hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the rebels' provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any prospect for peace in Algeria." Yazid went on to warn off Standard Oil of New Jersey, which had just negotiated oil-exploration rights in the Algerian Sahara with the French. "Our people are not tied by deals concluded with the enemy." warned Yazid, "and consider them an act of hostility...
...atrocities committed by the "war criminals" are only now coming to light. For the 16 months preceding the Castro victory, a strict censorship was imposed upon Cuban communication media. There was no such thing as a free press. Now as witnesses take the stand in the daily trials of their former tormentors, the long suppressed stories and pictures are appearing of sadistic tortures, mutilated bodes, with fingernails, eyes, or other organs missing...