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Arthur Sylvester, the Defense Department’s Public Relations Chief, just had to tell someone what he had done during the week of the Cuban crisis. The someone he told was the Washington press corps which is supposed to gaze in awe at all the works and pomps of the New Frontiersmen. But something went wrong. The press, for the most part, ignored the fact that he had been clever and concentrated on the fact that he had confessed to what the journalists considered an outrageous breach of the principles of a free society. The Sylvester story made a lot of headlines and inspired some acerb editorials.

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Arthur Sylvester, the Defense Department’s Public Relations Chief, just had to tell someone what he had done during the week of the Cuban crisis. The someone he told was the Washington press corps which is supposed to gaze in awe at all the works and pomps of the New Frontiersmen. But something went wrong. The press, for the most part, ignored the fact that he had been clever and concentrated on the fact that he had confessed to what the journalists considered an outrageous breach of the principles of a free society. The Sylvester story made a lot of headlines and inspired some acerb editorials.

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