Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brucker lost no time hustling down to the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles to protest. In Chicago Major General John Medaris, Redstone commander, dramatically got aboard a plane for Washington to fight off NASA capture-while a news leak rallied press reinforcements...
Quarles, apparently sympathetic, told the Army's Brucker to plead his case to White House Scientific Adviser Dr. James Killian. The President in press conference tried to head off a williwaw by insisting that Glennan's move was only part of a "study" in which the President himself would make the final ruling. But Glennan, plowing on, returned to Brucker's office at week's end with a written confirmation of his decision...
...yellow brewery on Broadway"). The architect, Josiah Cleaveland Cady, had never seen a grand opera, and he built the Met on the theory that its most important feature was not the stage but the boxes. At first, there were three tiers of them (later reduced to one), and the press simplified things for house scanners on opening night by printing charts indicating the positions of celebrities...
...press-box announcer blurted: "We have a score on the Northwestern-Michigan game that seems unlikely. The report gives Northwestern 34 points in the second quarter. We are asking for confirmation." Confirmation came quickly: Michigan was taking the licking of its life...
...comes close to justifying Editor Claude-Maxe's lofty claims with two superb records of last summer's drama, when France wobbled between chaos and revolution: General Jacques Massu hoarsely bellowing defiance from an Algerian balcony; rioters clashing on the Champs Elysees; De Gaulle solemnly telling a press conference that he wili serve, and later singing La Marseillaise in his booming, resonant voice...