Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Monckton group included secession only as a "safety valve" and clearly expressed its hope that no state would opt out. But portly Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky was outraged that the word had even been mentioned. The Monckton report is "the death knell of federation," he snapped. "I and my colleagues reject it out of hand." Most white Rhodesians agreed. But no matter what the whites said or thought, Britain was clearly determined to make drastic changes when all sides sat down to discuss the new constitution in December. Addressing the Tories' national convention at Scarborough last week...
Into the green-carpeted Petroleum Club lounge of the Northern Hotel in Billings, Mont. last week popped the Republican candidate for U.S. President. Then, with the group of newsmen accompanying him on the campaign trail, Richard M. Nixon opened the kind of informal press conference (no direct quotation allowed) that was once a standard Nixon campaign instrument. Although they had been complaining bitterly about the rarity of such occasions in recent months, most of the traveling newsmen largely ignored the visitor, leaving the Vice President to get along with local reporters...
...Most reporters now fly in a separate plane or planes; the four pool reporters admitted to the Nixon plane on rotation are carefully partitioned from the candidate, who keeps almost entirely to his quarters in the rear. "Nixon's people seem to feel the reporters are a conspiratorial group," says the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter. Nixon's press secretary, Herbert G. Klein, denying that there is any real hostility, admits that "you don't talk to the press people without some regard to what you say," and some members of Nixon's staff think...
Agitation in Print. Red doctrine has flowed freely, if sometimes more surreptitiously, through Japanese newsrooms since 1955. That year a group of Communist-led newsmen called the International Organization of Journalists spawned the Japan Congress of Journalists...
...idea of "controlled improvisation" to free classical music from its "slavery to the printed note" first occurred to Composer Foss while listening to the high-brow jazz of the Modern Jazz Quartet three years ago. Foss invited a group of classical players-all former composition students of his at U.C.L.A.-to get together and improvise freely in a classical counterpart to the jazz manner. They soon had to give up that approach: "We just daydreamed; we didn't make music." What he was looking for, Foss realized, was a group improvisation in which every player would in some...