Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember deploring the publicity given the "misguided" members of Truman's Administration, and cannot help but abhor the press's full coverage of the "dirty" side of any administration. Is it not possible to criticize in a constructive manner so that our neighbors elsewhere in the world will not think we're juvenile and petty...
...White House huddle, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles decided to 1) refrain from denouncing the Russian backout threat, and 2) send U.S. experts to Geneva anyway, leaving it up to Moscow to break the engagement. Announced Dulles, at a special White House press conference: "As far as we are concerned, we expect the conference to proceed, and our experts will continue on their way." At week's end Russian experts were on their...
...Prodded by newsmen at a press conference, McElroy comments on Burke's dissent: "I am disappointed in him, regard it as regrettable. I think he's a fine officer. I am sorry he's mistaken in this respect." In testifying on the Administration's reorganization proposals, declares McElroy, military officers should bear in mind the President's publicly and emphatically expressed views...
...making flight: the U.S. News & World Report's A. Robert Ginsburgh, 63, a retired Air Force brigadier general, and Glen A. Williams, 41; TIME-LIFE'S Washington Bureau Chief James L. McConaughy Jr., 42; the Boston Traveler's veteran aviation writer, Robert B. Sibley, 57; United Press International's foreign affairs writer Norman J. Montellier, 37; Associated Press's Daniel J. Coughlin...
Tribal & Local. After two months of civil war, he still refuses to say that he will not seek reelection, points only to his Premier's statement of last May that his government will not press this goal. "Since the crisis began," says a Beirut observer, "Chamoun has not said one word to his people. He talks only to foreign diplomats and foreign newsmen." He has declined to call Parliament into session; he has rejected repeated rebel - and third force - offers to compromise. He insisted last week that he has "a substantial majority in the country...