Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they kept pace with press briefings, government receptions and panel discussions, the tour members-some of them veterans of previous TIME trips -proved willing and capable newsmen. They took notes along the way, shot rolls of black and white and color film and, above all, asked questions...
...concern, and his insistence that the West must reach a new understanding with the Soviet Union in many areas beyond the immediate topic of arms control. Despite these weighty issues of state, Nixon managed at each stop to depart from his minutely organized routine to plunge into crowds and press the flesh in characteristic American political style...
There was only one major gaffe in an otherwise flawlessly executed tour. The White House released the text of an effusive arrival statement of praise for Charles de Gaulle, which was bannered in advance by the French press. In the event, however, Nixon delivered only a watered-down edition of the speech. The overblown first version seemed to negate Nixon's carefully cultivated neutrality in intra-European affairs; by awkwardly retracting it, he ran the opposite risk of offending De Gaulle and the French. He saved the situation somewhat by praising De Gaulle warmly in a subsequent toast...
...then transferred to another part of the plant. Gregory began correspondence with Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader, who presently has a $26 million invasion of privacy suit against G.M. for harassment during his famed auto-safety investigation. Nader looked into Gregory's charges and spelled them out in a press release. As a belated footnote to Gregory's three-year campaign, G.M. last week adopted his suggestions for an improved sealing technique and awarded him a $10,000 prize in Government bonds for his ideas...
...letters-some silly, some tragic-come into the Berkeley Barb, East Village Other, Los Angeles Free Press or any of 15 underground newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. Their language is raw, often misspelled, jangling with obscenities. A few are transparent put-ons. Most, though, are hippies' cries for help on medical matters. Dropping out of "straight" society provides no immunity to mankind's injuries and germs. Like everyone else, the members of the long-haired generation are often ignorant and afraid...