Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Nixon yesterday called a nationally broadcast press conference for Friday to announce his decision on the Sentinel antiballistic missile system, the most controversial issue his administration has faced so far. It seems likely that Nixon's decision will be to make no decision...
Barnyard Bath. Torn between literal reporting and euphemisms, the daily press is still struggling for balance. "We will use so-called crude words, but only when they are relevant to telling the story," says Boston Globe Editor Tom Winship. "It's titillating to use dashes, but it's adolescent to bathe people in barnyard words...
Scratching Thrown In. Or so it seemed. The press releases like to say that the Derby combines the speed of hockey with the contact of football, but it also has all the hoked-up histrionics of professional wrestling. In most of the "fights," the punches are pulled but they still send skaters sprawling. When the girls roll onto the Masonite track, the contact becomes more genuine-with shrieking, scratching and hair pulling thrown in. The female heavy is Joan Weston, a $20,000-a-year blonde Bomber who sends opponents flipping over the guard rails with one twitch...
...camera cliff-hung on the door of No. 10 Downing Street and the end of a Wilson-Nixon meeting, he sniped: "Of course, all of us will be kept fully in the dark about the discussions that are held. Both President Nixon and Mr. Wilson have expensively hired press secretaries whose job is to disguise the truth and to avoid straight questions." In sum, Dimbleby felt that Nixon had drawn "not as big a crowd as Kennedy would have and not as hostile a crowd probably as L.B.J." What the British had witnessed, he concluded, was "another stage...
...sessions for the spurious Anarchy Designs or, as it is now known, H-R X. It was at this meeting that one of X's founders, a man who has since fled to New York to escape cultural persecution, formulated a basic X goal: to be misunderstood by the Press. Therefore, I would personally like to thank the CRIMSON for printing John G. Short's splendid melange of myth, error, and misinterpretation about H-R X. Randolph Boog First Hyperion Harvard-Radcliffe...