Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCartney, according to LaBour's story, was found pinned under his Astin-Martin, "with the top of his head sheared off," four hours after he drove off on a rainy night in November, 1966. "The surviving Beatles decided to keep the information from the public for as long as possible ...a Paul look-alike contest was held and a living substitute found in Scotland," LaBour wrote...
...admitted the divinity of Christ, whom he referred to as "the Master." But Fosdick also subscribed to what he called "the sacredness and possibilities" of humans and he impressively preached a religion that linked the two without obscurantism. One who heard him was Ivy Lee, the father of the public relations industry and adviser to the Rockefeller family. Lee published Fosdick's 1922 sermon under the title of "The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith," and arranged to have it and subsequent homilies widely distributed. When John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered Fosdick the pulpit at the fashionable Park Avenue...
...time. Nobody expects that the U.S. can defeat inflation by conventional means unless it accepts at least a 4% unemployment rate, and if inflation continues to soar, the Administration may indeed be forced to introduce controls. But Kennedy, a longtime top Chicago banker with no previous experience in sensitive public office, has not yet learned that a Cabinet member's pronouncements are automatically taken as seriously considered policy. Nor has he learned to dodge a potentially explosive question. While even his critics applaud Kennedy's innate decency and amiability, his gaffes have deprived him and his office...
...inalienable rights of ex-Presidents, ex-generals and ex-ambassadors-and their ex-secretaries, ex-Jeep drivers and ex-valets-is the privilege of making public their diaries. The result, customarily, is to confront the reader with a literary chore roughly comparable to watching a three-hour slide show of his mother-in-law's latest trip through Navajo country...
Tully's most startling assertion is that months in advance of the event a Polish traitor handed a U.S. Defense Department agent detailed plans of last year's Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligence strategists, Tully asserts, then imaginatively suggested making the plans public in an effort to force a Russian change of heart. As Tully tells it, Washington overruled the idea on grounds that the U.S. could not afford such dangerous brinkmanship during the Viet...