Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place where the turnout will be largest and the crowd will be the most responsive. More than 11,000 turned out last week in Anaheim, Calif., 5,000 in Fresno, 10,000 in Salt Lake City, 250,000 to watch the candidate's motorcade in Philadelphia. The press is kept happy with a steady if low-protein diet of news releases. The staff radiates efficiency and confidence. "There's a scent of victory in the air," Richard Nixon allowed last week. "We're on a winning team...
...chastened Spiro Agnew set out last week to project the image of philosopher-statesman. With ego-altering assistance from Stephen Hess, a polished speechwriter assigned to him from Nixon headquarters, the Republican vice-presidential nominee sounded restrained, deliberate and at times downright dull. His press conferences, noted one aide, "are guaranteed not to make news...
...mayor has fulminated repeatedly about the distorted coverage that press and television gave to the demonstrations. Obviously, some reporters and commentators grew highly emotional. But too many impartial Chicagoans and visitors, and too many editors, correspondents and writers, witnessed the confrontations to accept Daley's version. What they saw was a collapse of professional discipline within the police ranks...
...second novel is Cancer Ward, based on the author's own struggle with cancer. It employs the familiar device of the hospital as microcosm of a sick world. Versions are being published in Britain by the Bodley Head and in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Dial Press. The appearance of these works is a literary event of the first magnitude?and inevitably a major political event as well...
...silence did not last. The top of the Soviet hierarchy erupted into controversy over Khrushchev's plan to publish the book, but at his direct authorization the novel appeared in the November issue of Novy Mir. The 95,000-copy press run sold out within days, as did the 100,000 copies in book form that quickly followed; by now, millions of Russians have read it, although it is no longer in bookstores and is gradually disappearing from library shelves...