Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last big hurdle facing Dwight Eisenhower in his recovery from his stroke was the on-the-spot questioning and answering of the presidential press conference. He had journeyed to Paris and strengthened U.S. ties with NATO leaders. He had recaptured the diplomatic initiative and restored the cold war perspective in his reply to the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin (TIME, Jan. 20). He had gone far, in his State of the Union message, toward bolstering the public confidence and military energy of the U.S. His special farm and economic messages to Congress carried hard, specific recommendations for bolstering the U.S. economy...
...when the President met the press last week for the first time in eleven weeks, his performance was something of a letdown. He knew his subjects, and his demeanor and clarity of character gave strength to the reasonableness of his answers-but this reasonableness, laid down in cold print, often sounded like weakness and an open invitation to his opponents to walk all over Dwight Eisenhower and his programs...
...prize will be awarded to the author of the best book on the history of religion accepted for publication by the Harvard University Press during the next four years, President Pusey has announced...
While the free world's press is quick to trumpet Soviet triumphs and even quicker to imagine them, it can also be faulted by its critics for failure to grasp the real achievements of the West. One such critic is the New York Times's Paris-based correspondent, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, who wrote last week that NATO conference delegates "came away encouraged" by the decisions reached in Paris, but that the "impression spread about the world was one of gloom...
...back up his argument, Newsman Sulzberger excerpted a letter to onetime NATO Commander in Chief Alfred Gruenther in which Belgium's NATO Ambassador Andre de Staercke chided the Western press for its "masochistic" tendency to see "just the weak points of our position." This attitude, said Veteran Diplomat de Staercke, is compounded by "lack of analysis, by sheer ignorance, by that kind of facility which makes bad news easier to believe than good news, or pessimism more secure than optimism...