Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky even managed to offend the television crews at a Los Angeles press conference by insisting on dividing it into two parts-one for the general press, one for TV. The technique had worked well enough back East, but the Angelenos would have none of it. As the TV crews noisily packed up and marched out in a mass huff, Rockefeller observed wryly: "A lesson in how to win friends and influence people...
Said Secretary Flemming at a press conference specially called just 17 days before Thanksgiving: two batches of the cranberry crop from Washington and Oregon had been found contaminated from improper use of a toxic weed killer called aminotriazole. The chemical, he said, had been tested on rats and had caused thyroid cancer. And so consumers should avoid buying Washington and Oregon cranberries until a way is found to separate the good berries from the bad. In fact, said Flemming, housewives should be "on the safe side" and not buy any, unless they could be sure that the berries were...
More was involved than a mere jockeying over dates. The delay also reflected a dispute over what kind of summit there should be, and continuing disagreement over Western policy, as De Gaulle made clear in a remarkable press conference (see below...
Coming to Providence for the New England Press Association Banquet, Rockefeller waved and grinned to a crowd of 200, mostly students from Harvard and Brown...
Should this location be rejected, the Behavioral Sciences Building will almost definitely be located on Kirkland Street, between Divinity Avenue and Kirkland Place. This site is currently occupied by Randall Hall, which houses the Harvard Press. Randall Hall is likely to be razed within a few years...