Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your report of the Munich Bach Festival [July 5] mentions two ways of playing Bach: 1) the rigid, as-written style; 2) the free, "swinging" style used by Karl Richter, Landowska and others...
...damp down rumors that often lead to riots?a report that a pregnant Negro woman had been beaten by police helped precipitate the 1965 uprising ?Los Angeles, like other cities, has set up rumor-control centers. If an inflammatory incident occurs, police immediately tell their side of the story to the local rumor-control officer. He calls four friends and each of them calls four more; the chain continues until a large part of the community knows that there are at least two sides to the story. "It's very loose-knit," admits Reddin, "but it gets the word...
...between 3,000 and 10,000 men. Dubcek had invited the Warsaw Pact forces to the country for "staff exercises" as proof of his loyalty to the Communist bloc; they were supposed to withdraw by the end of June, but did not. Throughout the week, Dubček was reportedly on the phone to Moscow to find out why. One report had Brezhnev bluntly telling him that the Soviet troops were needed to prevent the overthrow of Communism in Czechoslovakia...
...Tokyo, Japan. When she died in 1921, the fast-rising young Chiang matched her devotion by building her an elaborate tomb in the eastern China mountain village of Chikow, where the family lived. Last week, calling her memorial a "source of poison in Chinese society," an official Peking report joyfully revealed that members of the Red Guards had attacked the tomb and razed it to rubble. That particular act of barbarism, as Peking saw it, "marks a great victory for the thought of Mao Tse-tung...
...report to Congress last week, the Fed eral Trade Commission recommended by a 3-to-2 vote that cigarette ads be altogether banned from radio and TV. The Commission specifically objected to ads that equate smoking with good times, and noted that in January alone, viewers between twelve and 17 were exposed to a total of 60 cigarette commercials, mainly on such favorite teen-age shows as the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Wednesday Night Movie...