Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-working newsmen, the first commandment of the profession is: get the story. Following this time-honored tradition under the hard eye of a demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he can devise. When more than 300 reporters and photographers are thrown together to cover one of the biggest stories any of them ever covered, all the tricks piled one on another can produce a near riot. Last week, as the U.S. press covered Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's tour...
Orval Faubus could not resist a parting sneer at his old foe. Said he: "Ashmore has received a promotion to use his brainwashing talents on a far wider scale...
...radio-television industry carries far more responsibility. "Television spreads more rapidly among the poor than among the rich. And the classes with TV sets are getting TV's message: you should have a new car; you should be a good American and watch the Republican Convention; you should use a certain hair tonic. So the Negro in the deep South says, 'O.K., I've bought the hair tonic. Now where do I go to vote...
...plastics and other materials at temperatures simulating space's icy cold. Long-range planners devise methods to map the far side of the moon. Biggest single project is Vega, the U.S.'s most advanced space vehicle. Expected to fly in about 18 months, the first Vega will use an Atlas D as its first stage. The second stage, powered by a General Electric X405 rocket engine, is intended to place a 2½-ton satellite in a 300-mile orbit. Later Vegas will have third stages fueled with a J.P.L.-developed mixture, hydrazine and nitrogen textroxide, and should...
...nation's worst polio season since Salk vaccine came into widespread use in 1955 shows no certain signs of letup. The figures for the week ending Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Public Health Service: 515 new cases, 326 of them paralytic, up from 510 cases (273 paralytic) the week before. Totals for the year to date: 5,520 cases, 3,400 of them paralytic, an increase of 83% from...