Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kleist? When Krock joined The Times, in 1927, he was al ready a leading figure in American journalism. He had been shot at while covering Kentucky elections for the Associated Press in 1909, challenged to a duel for insulting a French newspaperman in Paris in 1918 ("Somehow, I managed to crawl out of that fix"). As assistant to Publisher Ralph Pulitzer on the old New York World, he was as signed to "ride herd on Herbert Swope," the paper's imperious editor, and to take over the editorial page when Walter Lippmann was away. It was, he says...
...shown every sign of revival. One recent issue reported the revolt of black athletes at the University of Texas' El Paso branch; another took up the cudgels for a long-neglected tribe of Indians. As usual, both stories had been largely ignored by the daily Texas press. So was the Observer's inside account of the editorial revolt and shake-up at the Austin American-Statesman, where pinchpenny management refused to replate for another edition on the night of Robert Kennedy's death...
...time to reply. The other held that any station endorsing or opposing a political candidate must allow the other candidates to reply. In suits brought by CBS, NBC and the Radio Television News Directors Association, the court ruled both requirements unconstitutional as a violation of free speech and press guarantees-though it did not knock down the fairness doctrine itself...
...continued his complaint in his farewell press conference. "I think a good many people have tended to use the space program as a whipping boy," he said. "I thought that we had reached parity with the Russians about two and a half years ago." But the Soviets are proceeding "without letup" while the U.S. effort will have shrunk by mid-1969 to half what it was in the middle 1960s. As a result, Webb predicted, the Russians "will be flying more flights and developing a capability in space at a much more rapid rate than we will for the next...
...been stifled, the sea polluted. The earth itself is encrusted with a layer of rubble. The human race has retreated into sealed, windowless cells serviced by tube and tap. All outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind of television, which provides everything at the press of a button-from sex to seaside holidays, from the most exquisite physical sensation to the tang and even the feel of the sea. Life has become a painless, effortless, synthetically carefree adman's paradise. Meanwhile, the dirty work-garbage collection, refuse disposal, food production-is left to a wretched race...