Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Semi-Soft Sell. In Columbus, the Dispatch ran an ad for the movie, The Story of Life: "Mothers, bring your daughters. Fathers, bring your sons. It frankly answers their every curious question! Recommended for adults only...
...American people. You probably don't remember, because you were too young." Replied Kozlov: "I remember very well because I was hungry." Nixon broke in to say that Herbert Hoover had recently shown him a letter testifying to the fact. Cornered, Kozlov shrugged it all off: "The question is not disputed."* Soon Kozlov got his revenge, planted one on Nixon...
...Governor Edmund G. Brown in Sacramento. He slept during much of the trip but managed to rouse himself long enough to hold an airborne press conference. First crack out of the box, Hearst Reporter David Sentner asked Kozlov why Khrushchev did not curb subversive activities of U.S. Communists. The question seemed to shock Ambassador Menshikov, but not Kozlov. Said he blandly: "Our country never interferes in the internal affairs of any country, even the smallest, certainly not such a mighty country as the United States...
...Distinguished Service Medal, on the chest of retiring General Maxwell D. Taylor. Cracked Ike, as he searched for a place to pin the last award on the much decorated tunic of his wartime comrade: "There's not much room left, is there?" ¶ Adroitly fielded a press conference question that is bound to come up in a hundred different ways between now and July 1960, as reporters and politicos try to get him to express a personal preference between Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, or any other Republican who might be his successor. "I certainly shall never...
Then George Allen went beyond the expected, polite tributes as he moved to the delicate subject of Algeria (De Gaulle was angered by U.S. abstention on the Algerian question in the U.N. last winter). "We recognize that France faces a problem of greater difficulty and complexity than that which burdens any other free nation," he said. "We welcomed the Constantine Plan* as a major step forward. We welcomed your affirmation of the reality of an 'Algerian personality,' " adding, "We sincerely hope that an equitable and liberal solution-one that will maintain French ties to Algeria -will be found...