Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru's own waverings and hesitations these past weeks, his most determined opponents have been the Indian press and Indian students. The first he has called "excitable," and the second, "vulgar." But even the press last week was offering some comfort to Nehru. A volume titled A Study of Nehru, published by the Times of India, is a birthday compilation of 62 opinions-mostly laudatory-by such authorities as President Tito of Yugoslavia, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell and Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg...
...Philippine standards, it turned out to be the most peaceable election ever; although during the six-week campaign 38 Filipinos had been killed and 131 wounded, only two killings were reported on election day. But it was also an election, noted Manila's Philippines Free Press, in which "the corruption of the people with their own money" reached "awesome" proportions. With the rich resources of government funds at their disposal, Garcia's Nacionalistas reportedly spent $4,500,000 buying votes in Cebu Province (pop. 1,324,880) alone...
...strike began with Portland's 54-member Stereotypers' Local No. 48, whose key demand was that four-man crews be used on a new German automatic press plate casting machine, designed for operation by one man, that the Oregonian plans to buy. The Journal refused to bargain separately, and the stereotypers walked off both papers, to be followed by members of all the other newspaper unions. At that point the executives, editorial-page writers, ad salesmen, secretaries and other nonunion employees of the Oregonian and the Journal put on yellow aprons and ran off a joint, jury...
...makeshift effort seemed to be working. There were no cancellations from advertisers, and from the first day's 24-page, 43,000-copy edition, production had moved up by week's end to a Sunday edition of 48 pages, with a press run of 520,000 copies. At that rate it appeared that the Journal and the Oregonian may have turned their composing-room comedy of errors into a long-run test of strength...
Allen Drury is a thin-haired reporter who spent 16 competent years on the Capitol Hill beat for United Press, the Washington Evening Star and the New York Times before he unburdened himself of a book. Otto Preminger is a bagel-bald producer-director who has a reputation for outbidding everyone for film rights to bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury...