Word: press
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newspapers, for the most part, agreed prior to the television speech that Kennedy had some explaining to do. The usually sympathetic Boston Globe stated editorially: "It is in his own best interest as well as the public's that all the facts should come out." The Cleveland Press, reviewing the questions left unanswered by Ted's police station statement, declared: "The public is entitled to a better explanation than it has had yet." For all its smooth carpentry, the television statement did not dispel most such doubts and questions. The New York Times, which had begun its coverage...
Special editions came off presses from Taiwan to Fleet Street like confetti. Records for circulation, promotion, mass staffing, and words written were broken everywhere. At week's end the Miami News delivered to its readers a staggering 16-page, 33,000-word narrative describing the Apollo 11 mission. In New York, the Times devoted 18 pages to moon news. Even with a press run increased by 75,000, the Times literally disappeared from newsstands Monday morning-some copies going for upwards of $1 on the black market. Both the New York Post and Daily News datelined landing-day issues...
Somehow the Boston Press has failed to give Jack Van Berg the credit that he is due. It seems that everyone loves a loser and hates a winner. Clearly Jack will run away with the training honors at Rockinghgam Park--both in terms of races won and of percentage of winning starts...
...Vargas and was one of the forces that eventually brought his overthrow in 1945. In 1964, Mesquita lent his powerful support to the coup that ousted Leftist President João Goulart, but later grew disenchanted with the military dictatorship that resulted, and rejoined the battle for a free press and democratic elections...
...York City area, up from 20,000 in 1967. As for Benton & Bowles, its problems persist. Last week the agency discovered that its listing was inadvertently left out of the new phone books. New York Tel promised to insert the listing in the last half of the press run, and to make sure that the early books are distributed to Manhattan's outlying areas where few subscribers are likely to feel a need to call an ad agency...