Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway last week, spokesmen for the U.S. theater were singing the blues about life on the road. Whether in Bridgeport or Ashtabula, St. Joe or Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
Early last week U.S. newspapers blossomed with cheery stories that the Soviet Union had suddenly capitulated on the big point the U.S. and Britain had been demanding from the outset, had agreed that any ban on nuclear testing must be linked to a control system. As Western spokesmen passed word that "the more realistic" approach of the Soviets had brought the conference closer to success, U.S. Delegate James T. Wadsworth tabled a draft first article "inseparably" linking the ban with the projected control organization. At week's end the conference announced that it had reached agreement on a first...
Upland Air. The government had not forgotten the docile Batonga. Official spokesmen appeared, told the tribesmen they were to be moved to more fertile land. The officials conceded that parts of the new area were infested with lions, elephants and the tsetse fly, but they were sure the Batonga would find the upland air bracing after centuries of breathing the swampy vapors of the Gwembe Valley...
...guest of Winthrop House by the grace of a Ford Foundation donation, Chester Bowles brought to many undergratuates an optimism and intelligence uncommon today among America's spokesmen. But Bowles would undoubtedly be the first to prick this balloon we have inflated in his honor, for his is a quiet humility which understands that being human means being imperfect...
Three weeks ago France, after a year of fruitless negotiation, declared that "it is not possible to create the Free Trade Area as desired by the British." Dismayed and outraged, British spokesmen accused France's protection-loving industrialists of trying to turn the Common Market into an exclusive high-tariff club. Such a step, warned the British, would split Europe into two hostile economic camps. British fears are shared by many, including West Germany's free-enterprising Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...