FOREIGN RELATIONS: Foster's Hour

Just after the President of the U.S. went to lunch one day last week, a band of technicians moved into his huge, oval office in the White House. They laid a brown canvas over the green carpet, moved a picture of the President's mother off his desk, rolled in half a dozen cameras and set up floodlights, microphones and recorders. Six hours later, at the day's best hour for reaching large radio and television audiences, the office was the scene of a government's remarkable new technique for informing the governed.

In the language of radio and television programs, it might...

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