Word: bannering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election night, and the old parties are awaiting the government's victory. In the composing room of the right-wing newspaper Il Tempo, a makeup man puts the banner line into the form: GOVERNMENT WINS WITH LARGE MAJORITY. A state television news director instructs his assistant: "Feed in the usual commentary-that one we used in 1969 will do fine." Forecasters have predicted a government victory, because again, as in previous elections, voters are unable to remember candidates' names. At Communist Party headquarters on Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), Party Boss Luigi Longo...
...Support for the brothers came last week from Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, who criticized the "ignominious silence" of broadcasters who are dedicated to "free speech for profitable speech only. A study of the occasions on which the broadcasting industry has raised the banner to 'free speech,' " said Johnson, "leaves one with the distinct suspicion that these occasions almost invariably coincide with the industry's monetary self-interests...
...Mime Troupe began their performance with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," to which the omnipresent "Polish Freedom Fighter" lent his lusty baritone when he felt they were doing it less than justice. They followed it with several gutter puppet shows, and a skit satirizing the press...
...move in, but so far it has agreed to do so only at National Airlines, where I.A.M. members have called a wildcat strike. The mechanics gained some attention for their dispute last week by disrupting the National-sponsored invitational golf tournament in Miami. A union-hired plane trailing a banner that proclaimed "Don't Fly N.A.L." circled the course. Several strikers invaded the 17th green, traded blows with police and had to be bodily removed before play could continue...
...James Banner, Princeton University: "His Administration was a period of drift rather than mastery. There was a social revolution occurring, and Eisenhower was not aware of it. He left it to Kennedy and Johnson, who came almost too late. At the same time, it was Eisenhower and only Eisenhower who struck out at the military-industrial complex. That was the high point of his presidency...