Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, De Gaulle came under stinging attack for his anti-Israel policies from the once subservient French press. In an unprecedented demonstration of unanimous scorn, French newspaper reporters boycotted the information ministry's regular Wednesday briefing in what amounted to a direct snub of the general himself...
...billed her farewell speech to the National Press Club as "The Swan Song of a Lame Duck." But Liz Carpenter, 48, Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary, might better have called it "The Last Hurrahs." There were plenty: "The big question is what Senator McCarthy plans to do. When reporters ask, he doesn't say anything. But he does let them kiss his ring ... I offered myself to Governor Walter Hickel as a national monument. He took one look and said, I don't believe in conservation just for conservation's sake...
...theater. Annoyed at last, Trudeau made it clear that a public figure-and especially a 49-year-old bachelor-is still a private person. "I do not think it's your damned business what a particular person thinks about me, or how we behave," he snapped to the press. "Perhaps the police could question the women you have been seen with...
Volcanic Activity? At their press conference in the State Department auditorium, the astronauts gave a performance almost as remarkable as their feats in space. As they took turns explaining features on their moon pictures and answering the questions of newsmen, they were articulate, gently humorous and impressively well-informed about lunar geology. Anders avoided taking sides in the controversy over whether the moon's features are of primarily volcanic or meteoric origin. He reported seeing what seemed to be lava flows and cinder cones, and said that photographs of the back side of the moon revealed "anamolous dark regions...
...YORK, JAN. 9 (AP)-THE WIRE SERVICE GUILD STRUCK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TODAY IN A DISPUTE CENTERING ON WAGES AND A DEMAND FOR A FORM OF UNION SHOP...