Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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READ YOUR AUG. 4 PRESS STORY AND WOULD LIKE MAKE ONE CORRECTION: FIRST MEN IN BAGHDAD WERE TWO, STAN CARTER AND MYSELF. WHEN WE ARRIVED ON IRAQI MILITARY PLANE FROM DAMASCUS, OFFICERS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT DIDN'T KNOW WHO WE WERE. THEY SEEMED TO THINK WE WERE EITHER AMERICAN OFFICERS OR MOON MEN. I WAS FIRST MAN TO INTERVIEW BRIGADIER EL-KASSIM...
...Golden N. Commander Anderson flew back to a Washington that was soon agog with suspense. Reason: White House Press Secretary James Hagerty was planning a showcase presentation, warned newsmen to be on hand at the White House for a major story "with the President participating." Nautilus' Anderson went to the White House, briefed the President for 25 minutes. Then the President, Anderson and his wife Bonnie, and a small group of Navy and Atomic Energy Commission brasshats formed up before 75 newsmen in the White House conference room. (Not invited and thus snubbed: A-Sub Pioneer Rickover, whose prickly...
...Flying Saucer Review of London, where the Bulletin found it. As a final touch, Gerald S. Clark, assistant public relations director of A.P.R.O., edited Dr. Jung's article down to a bare statement of belief in the "reality" of flying saucers, and sent it to the Associated Press and United Press International. So Dr. Jung found himself classified as a flying-saucer believer...
Arbiter of Style. The reaction of visiting architects and the official press tended to be favorable. Professionals were struck by the U.S. technical know-how, analyzed plumbing, wiring and heating systems, wondered (along with many an American) "how you keep them in repair." No less an authority than Nikita Khrushchev endorsed modern architecture over the Russian style. Speaking to leaders of delegations to the architectural congress, Khrushchev said that the very buildings at the university, where the congress was held, are too elaborate and ornate. He recommended simpler buildings. And that, as one American in Moscow put it, should...
...smoking can no longer be refuted. A majority of manufacturers either oppose or ignore the problem." These words were spoken last week, not by a scientist or antismoking crusader, but by Patrick O'Neil-Dunne, 50, technical director of Rothmans of Pall Mall, British cigarette maker. A Rothmans press release was even stronger: "The link has been established beyond all reasonable doubt...