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out to be the highest rated—I believe cf ar.y television show that had ever been shown in Mexico City.”
(Unfortunately, die “local people” weren’t able to get the USIS free time on the Mexican television station, and, when the show failed to attract a sponsor, the USIS had to suspend it, because the TV time charges were taking too much of its budget.)
Russia—‘""his magizine (USIS “America Today”) continues to be most eagerly sought after by the Soviet people every time it goes on the stands. We had a specific example of that when the last ..ssues went on sale a few weeks ago. We had two or three, people at our Embassy standing at proper places to see the main newsstand—the kiosks— when the magazine arrived. When the delivery trucks came up, people waiting to make purchases did not know that the American magazine was going to come on the stand. When bundles of the magazine were delivered to the newsdealers, practically everybody within sight insisted upon having a copy. They went like _hotcakes”.
Germany—“In our American House in Berlin, which is located right next to the principal stop on the interurban railway that comes out of East Berlin, we have a special roan for East Germans to come and see our documentary films, and a special reading room. I went there to see a newsreel and watched 200 or 400 East Berliners in the room at the time. After the film showing was over, I went into the reading room for the East Germans. There is a round, elevated sort of counter behind which a girl stands. She has leftover copies of the daily newspapers of West Berlin, as well as magazines and periodicals. She was doing a landoffice business. Just as fast as die possibly could, she was handing out these 2-and-3-day old news
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