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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Target: The Corrupters (ABC) is another good crime show, dramatizing each week a different area of corruption (waterfront, highway construction). But the rest of the season's prodigious list of new crime shows are mainly 30-caliber bull. NBC's 87th Precinct began with a gimmick (the heroine of the initial episodes was the deaf-mute wife of a police detective) and will undoubtedly end on one-soon. Cain's Hundred (also NBC) has introduced Nicholas Cain (Mark Richman), onetime attorney for the mob, now bent on revenge for the mob murder of his fianc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...predawn moments of a long Washington night, a handful of U.S. Senators wound up the business of the 87th Congress' first session in a mood of frustration and anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The First Session | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...87th had labored hard and long-longer, in fact, than any Congress since the Korean War session of 1951. It voted the biggest appropriations in U.S. peacetime history-some $95.8 billion. But the distinguishing feature of the 87th Congress lay not in the hours it worked or the money it spent. Rather, what set the 87th apart was the fact that it was dominated by the House of Representatives, long dubbed the lower branch. In exercising its leadership the House often thwarted the will not only of the Senate but of the man in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The First Session | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...87th Precinct (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new bullet series. Wherever the 87th precinct is, it looks familiar. Tonight the precinct's supersleuth finds a female corpse floating in the river with a mysterious tattoo on her hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 22, 1961 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

Sick of Washington's sultry heat and weary after a long session, the members of the 87th Congress drove toward an adjournment that still seemed a week or two away. Last week's major Capitol Hill action came in the House. There, by a vote of 270 to 123, the homesick legislators passed and sent to the Senate a $3,657,500,000 foreign aid appropriation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Toward the End | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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