Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assembled newsmen De Gaulle began with a 15-minute "preliminary statement," made without notes, that turned out to be almost word for word like a mimeographed summary handed to the newsmen as they came in. In the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, the general had seen to it that as President his would be the right to define France's foreign policy, and his monarchic-type "press conference"-more an audience with an articulate and intellectual head of state-was his chosen forum for doing so. He had a great deal of news to make...
Gronchi fancies himself ideally suited to mediate between East and West. He got his chance when an Italian official brought back word that Khrushchev would be glad to have Gronchi as a guest in the Kremlin. Gronchi was willing, but not all Italians cheered. The Vatican Radio gave pointed prominence to an article in La Civilta Cattolica that said that "the cold war cannot be solved by smiles and handshakes."' Il Quotidiano, the news organ of Catholic Action, declared that "Gronchi's proposed trip is a source of serious concern to all Catholics...
Trading Notes. Never before had a country off U.S. shores been as unfriendly as Louisiana-sized Cuba, which engaged the U.S. in full-scale diplomatic debate, taking obvious relish in every word. Off the presses of the Cuban Ministry of State rolled a 14-page color pamphlet, loaded with "atrocity" pictures and designed to prove that the U.S. was responsible for "bombing and strafing" Havana...
Admen buzz that one of Madison Avenue's biggest agencies pays up to $1,000 for dropping a mention of a client on a high-Trendexed show. A Hollywood public-relations agency spreads word that for $500 it can get plugs into the scripts of one of the half-dozen most popular TV comedians. One Beverly Hills agency that specializes in placing plugs, Fishell & Associates, sends out to writers and producers a long list of "clients" that pay it for arranging a mention. Among them: Howard Johnson, Betty Crocker, Western Union, Wheaties, Diners' Club, Gallo wines, Playtex girdles...
...remarkable in a frightened city (pop. 1,000,000) where 100,000 firearms are privately owned and virtually every house has a watchdog. In his preaching, Evangelist Bhengu is careful not to set up a kind of reverse color line. White preachers, he tells his native listeners, have the word too. "When you get hold of a bottle of gin. it comes in a white bottle. It tastes good. Sometimes you pour some into a black bottle for your friends. It still tastes good. I give you the spirit of God out of a black bottle, but if it comes...