Abused Freedom in Press Conferences Debate
The Brookings Institution prepared a confidential memo for President-elect Kennedy proposing major limits on presidential press conferences. It urges indirect quotations, bans on live TV and radio, written questions, preselected topics, and tighter cabinet press relations. The memo argues reporters abuse conferences and the press should reform itself to prevent evasive tactics.
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Brookings Institution
John F. Kennedy
Letter Defends State Employes Rights and Raises Debate
A reader from Healy objects to an editorial titled Men Not Working arguing state employees receive unfair treatment. He cites federal pay raises, overtime rules, and holiday time off. The letter urges retracting statements and affirms support for extra days off while noting editorials also call for higher state salaries.
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A. M. Rittgers
Healy
Santa Enroute to the Business World Says Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle outlines office Christmas characters and quirks in a humorous NYAP piece. He describes figures from the senior vice president to the thriftier boss, the receptionist, the charity zealot, and the office party advocate, noting how yuletide spirit alters routine and workplace dynamics in December. Look around your own office for these familiar types.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Banta
Ores
Mars
Ike Kennedy conference recalls meeting in past
Drew Pearson notes 28 year span since a Democratic president met a Republican counterpart in a Hoover Roosevelt style recall. He compares Kennedy Eisenhower talks with the 1932 Hoover Roosevelt debt conference, citing dollar drain fears, prestige concerns, and divergent approaches this time.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
John Kennedy
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Hoover
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State Department
The
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Ecommerce Department
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Augusta
Howard Snyder
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USA
Hoongvelt
Plan Switch In Frequency Plan Switch In Frequency
WALLOWS ISLAND, va. AP The nation s space communications shift to a higher frequency to avoid TV interference during a balloon satellite launch attempt. Previously satellites used 108 megacycles. the new craft would broadcast near 136 megacycles. NASA official William J. O Sullivan Jr said the FCC requested the change due to interference with television.
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Wallows Island
William J. O'Sullivan Jr
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Federal Communications Commission
Gardes City Telegram Publication Details
The Gardes City Telegram is published daily except Sunday by Telegram Publishing Company at 117 Chestnut Street. Robert Wells, Marvin Smith, and other Associated Press members contribute local news and dispatches, with exclusive rights for reproduction.
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Gardes City Telegram
Telegram Publishing Company
Haat Chestnut
Robert Wells
el Brown
Marvin Smith
Associated Press
Distaff Side Lampoons Town Wide Nonsense
A rambling spoof item notes turkey dinners for jail inmates, a birthday snub, a film re release in 1961 with an Atlanta premiere, local talk on capital punishment by Al Dewey, jokes about Clark Gable, marital rope after tying the knot, and a Bloodmobile reminder. The piece mocks media and public life with quirky asides and local color.
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K.B.I
al Dewey
Kansan
Dodge City
Clark Gable
Atlanta
Show Biz
World Today Contrasts Soviet China Peace Talk
Associated Press analyst William L. Ryan notes after the Kremlin summit that Soviet and Red Chinese positions differ on world policy. Pravda warns unity is essential for Marxism Leninism while Albania questions Moscow's peace claims amid shifting global power dynamics.
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