Word: vanguard
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Call your Vanguard failure a victory. It was a real demonstration to the Russians that freedom of information and liberty of the press exists in America. Neither your nation nor your people are responsible for exaggerated press deductions and calculations...
Stung by a barrage of editorials charging that Pentagon ballyhoo had witlessly buoyed up hopes for a successful Vanguard launching, the Government last week tucked the missile program back behind its security curtain. At Alabama's Redstone Arsenal, Army Ballistic Missile Agency people were even forbidden to talk to the press on any aspect of satellite plans, whether classified or not. Defense Department Pressagent Murray Snyder announced that future missile shoots will not be announced in advance, nor will newsmen on the spot be helped by officialdom...
Though Government mimeographs orbited overtime on the Vanguard project, and an uncommon flow of information on firing times and other matters was directed to newsmen, the press itself played no small part in building up for the letdown. Few of the 127 U.S. and foreign reporters who covered the launching gave any strong warning to editors and readers-as briefing officers warned them-that they were there for a test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding...
...morning missilemen, the Pentagon should try to see that the public is not again gulled by over-optimistic news stories. One way to assure "full and balanced dispatches," suggested the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin D. Canham, would be to give newsmen full briefings on the next Vanguard test, but insist that they file their stories on a "hold-for-release" basis for use after the shoot. Straight from the launching pads came the best-aimed proposal of all. Said Lieut. Colonel Sid Spear, public relations officer at Patrick Air Force Base...
Italian Chamber Music (soloists and Societas Musica Orchestra of Copenhagen; Vanguard). A delicious antipasto of Italian baroque, featuring Albinoni's melodies in the Trio Sonata in A, Opus I No. 3 for two violins, cello and virginal; Alessandro Scarlatti's serene Sonata in F; and a highly stylized love song for tenor accompanied by cello and harpsichord, by a 17th century Casanova named Alessandro Stradella. The power of his music was legendary. Once, so a story goes, assassins hired by a prominent Venetian (whose mistress Stradella had carried off) caught up with him in a church where...