Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House passed a mine-safety bill setting limits on coal dust in mines for the first time. A congressional committee began hearings on railroad accidents, which Nader claims are responsible for 1,800 deaths a year. And the Department of Transportation issued a policy statement promising to make public soon the names of auto brands that fail to meet Federal safety standards. Next, Nader plans to petition the Federal Aviation Agency to ban smoking on planes for safety's sake...
...loved and trusted by his boys is, in fact, mimicked and laughed at behind his back," recalled George Orwell in Such, Such Were the Joys. James Hilton took the opposite view. The schoolmaster who thought himself mocked was actually loved. Orwell's essay may have been what the public needed to know. But Hilton's 1934 novel was what it wished to read. Goodbye, Mr. Chips rapidly passed from sentimental classic bestseller to sentimental classic movie. In the title role, Robert Donat won an Academy Award, and Mr. Chips achieved legendary status as the old master...
...Fowles had it as a child, it was the only sign he did have of his future profession. The son of a suburban cigar importer, he went to an English public school. "I enjoyed it, played cricket well and was successful." In fact, he became head boy, "a very efficient little Gestapo" who punished the other boys with a cane for their misdemeanors. After school, Fowles served in the British marines, which he hated. "I also began to hate what I was becoming in life -a British Establishment young hopeful. I decided instead to become a sort of anarchist...
Twenty years ago, only a Metternich might have appreciated Dean Acheson, that rarest of all Americans, the model diplomat. Excessively sharp of mind and tongue-and not at all afraid to show the biting edge of either-Acheson was not destined for public popularity as Harry Truman's Secretary of State, particularly in an era when careers could be smashed overnight by little more than whispered innuendoes of "Communist" or "leftwing" sympathies. Present confusions and elapsed time, however, have created new perspectives on the diplomatic problems and achievements of the Truman Administration...
Judge G. S. Flym, the lawyer representing most of the appellants, said yesterday that he will ask the court to order a change of venue or to postpone the trials because of the public excitement caused by this week's disturbances...