Word: press
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Hershey and 51 members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Council listened to a prayer for "a U.S. that is a blessing to the world" and "a clean press," thousands of Harvard undergraduates grouped around radios waiting not to hear their birthdays announced...
...press conference yesterday afternoon, May said he assumed department faculties and representatives of Harvard professional schools will also enter the discussions, both to counter-balance undergraduate suggestions and to give an indication how the new curriculum might be received by graduate school admission offices...
Meanwhile, Patrick engineered a slick transatlantic crossruff. Starting with a girl who was unknown on either side of the ocean, Patrick billed Raquel to the European press as America's answer to Ursula Andress. European reporters lapped it up. Then Patrick shipped the publicity back to the U.S., where it was eagerly picked up by the American press. In 1966, Hammer Productions wished its friends a merry, merry Christmas by distributing 11-by-13 cards (3,000 of them) with Raquel's classic cave-suit pose on the front...
...asking for a "clear statement of congressional intent" on eliminating domestic protectionist devices, notably the 1933 "Buy American" legislation, which prevents the Federal Government from purchasing foreign goods unless the price is more than 6% below that of comparable U.S. products. Repealing the law would help the Administration to press foreign countries to end equally ingenious barriers to trade, including European border taxes, health regulations and artificial technical restrictions...
Critics have long-and unfairly-blamed the Vatican for almost every controversial move made by companies in which it has substantial holdings. For example, when Immobiliare teamed up with Conrad Hilton to build the Cavalieri Hilton Hotel on a Rome hilltop, the leftist press angrily accused the Holy See of wire pulling to arrange the zoning. When the government carved Via Olimpica across Rome to speed traffic to the 1960 Olympic Games, anticlerical pundits charged that the thoroughfare was laid out to provide huge profits for Immobiliare, which owned big tracts of property along the route. Early this year, small...