Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specifically when Commander Jim McDivitt asked to speak to the ground in private to report that Rusty Schweikart was vomiting. When Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, granted permission, reporters protested. As the battle continued, Haney pondered-and then took the position that the right of the press and the public to know was more important than the astronauts' desire for privacy...
...showdown came last month, when Haney and Head Astronaut Deke Slayton collided over whether or not the press could witness a lunar-landing practice session. Slayton won, and four days later NASA's chief public affairs officer, Julian Scheer, gave Haney the news: he was to lose his voice job and accept a special post out of harm's way in Washington. Haney flatly refused the new job, describing the proposed move "like being kicked out of the game on the two-yard line after coming 98 yards down the field." Scheer quickly accepted his resignation...
...distracted by worries of pollution and politics, audiences uttered no complaint when the subtitles slipped off-screen for one complete show, leaving nothing but nudes spouting Swedish. Apart from Philadelphia and Senator Dirksen, it seems, Curious has caused only one other stir: The over-the-counter stock of Grove Press, the movie's distributor, was selling at $6.25 in October 1968. Last week as Curious (Yellow) moved out to other major cities shares were over $30, and rising...
...thing that's attractive about the Senate," he remarked," is that it makes a good pulpit. If a Senator wants to talk about people who are starving, then the press has to report what the says. If he wants to visit a ghetto, there will be some cameraman to follow him. . . . Bobby Kennedy knew this. I think he showed how the office could be used...
...irresponsibility of those who made public opinion, Gilligan warmed. "This country has developed the most fantastic system of communications the world has ever known, but people living today know as much about what's going on as Mongolian tribesmen," he said. It was not just that TV, and the press failed to transmit both sides of a question to the public; they stupified the electorate as well...