Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aims have been implemented, and here there is room for improvement. The members and directors of the HSA are the first to admit this. "With any new business," John U. Monro, Director of Financial Aid and creator of the organization, observes, "there is a natural tendency to grow, to press for its success...
...combatants laid down their barrage. But as they did so, the Commander in Chief let loose his cannonball of the week. Said Dwight Eisenhower at his press conference: "I repeat again what the meaning of this whole thing is, a nation's strategy is devised as an entity, as a unified thing. It cannot be ... the function of any separate forces of any kind ... It must be directed under unified control. The amount of supervisory control that is given to the Secretary of Defense ... is that amount which will make it possible for him to carry out a unified...
...Washington, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, prestigious vice chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, accused the Administration on Meet the Press of talking about clean bombs while stockpiling dirty bombs-even "inserted something that makes them dirtier." The Defense Department denied it. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss resented it. President Eisenhower said at his news conference: "We have looked constantly to cleaner bombs so that you could have a more local and advantageous use of the nuclear weapon rather than just a shotgun method...
...planned lack of proletarian provocation-Nasser became the first non-Communist head of state ever to take the Red army's salute as guest of honor beside Khrushchev and Marshal Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square. "Nasser Reviews Red Army," crowed the Cairo press. Khrushchev entertained him at his dacha, at the Bolshoi ballet, at a Lenin Stadium soccer match, at a whole round of banquets. Taking time off only to pray at Moscow's mosque, Nasser drank in the flattery with all the appetite for acclaim of the Middle East's biggest balcony...
...high school, began making news in his first reporting job on a provincial newspaper-he strapped on skis and ran an elk to exhaustion. Since 1953 he has averaged a story a week for Apu, often has his exploits reported in the Scandinavian and northern German press. One future assignment: hunting a bear with a spear (to prove that modern Finns are as strong as their ancestors...