Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's enthusiasm for this kind of metronomic statecraft found startling expression last week during Nixon's first press conference in three months. Said he: "There are those who want instant integration and those who want segregation forever. I believe we need to have a middle course. . . But what is the midpoint between Now and Forever? In mathematical terms, it is an absurd conception-dividing infinity in half yields infinity. Richard Nixon might consider Zeno's paradox: In perpetually moving half the distance between one's present position and an ultimate goal, one is condemned...
Such attacks did not yet mean serious congressional trouble for Nixon, nor did they necessarily indicate that the patience of much of the rest of America had yet run out on the President. But Nixon seemed visibly on the defensive at his press conference. He bluntly dismissed the Goodell cutoff plan as representing "a defeatist attitude." He said it would preclude any movement toward peace until that cutoff date, since "any incentive for the enemy to negotiate is destroyed if he is told in advance if he just waits for 18 months, we'll be out anyway." Nixon seemed...
...Procaccino campaign must seem more than a little incredible. This is New York City, capital of New Politics and glamour, headquarters of the national communications media, lair of sophisticates. Yet, here is Procaccino, 57 and looking it, poor on television and ducking it when possible, suspicious of the press and at odds with it?here is the scion and heir of Old Politics, doing rather nicely by the estimates of adversary and ally alike...
Harvard still ranks first in New England football in the Associated Press weekly poll. Boston College and Dartmouth were again second and third, but they were closer to the Crimson in total points this time than they were a week...
NEWSMEN, especially press photographers, have this absurd fascination with being on the scene of a great news event. They begin to be interested in only those things that fit the press's arbitrary formula for "news." They can't help themselves. If anything is going to happen, they want to be there to record it; but it has to be something they expect, or have seen before. so they know its importance when it starts happening...