Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quadrupled its daytime audience, even before the star witnesses appeared. Du Mont's ability to function as a public servant was the envy of the networks, but it was the kind of service the big chains, with their high preemption costs and complex affiliate commitments, could ill afford (estimated network carrying cost: more than...
...reporting job that Dulles finally conceded to be necessary, or at least inevitable. No cameramen-for press, newsreel or TV-will be allowed into China (although reporters may carry cameras). Representation will be limited to the big newspapers, magazines, wire services and broadcasting companies that 1) can now afford to maintain one "fulltime American correspondent overseas" and 2) are prepared to send one staffer for "six months or longer" to China on a resident basis...
...wrong time." Zigzag U.S. policy was further shaken by paying too much attention to allies, e.g., Britain and France, who had no basic strategic interest in Korea, opposed taking any risks, however minor, which might extend the war to Europe. Unprepared for limited war, "we thought we could not afford to win in Korea, despite our strategic superiority, because Russia could not afford to lose." Kissinger contends that a decisive Red Chinese defeat in Korea would probably not have brought an all-out war; instead, the Soviet Union might have coldly reconsidered expending its resources to help a bungling ally...
...Needles. Proponents of a live but attenuated virus, in a vaccine made to be taken by mouth, predicted a swing to their method. Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (TIME, Oct. 15) suggested that his method might be the answer for poor countries whose people cannot afford three Salk shots at $1 each, or where migrant populations cannot be brought together three times at the right intervals...
Other highlights of Kinmond's series: there are many indications that the Chinese are weary of "a steady diet of dogmatism and Marxism." People react to party-line operas by "voting with their feet," i.e., staying away. Movies, almost the only entertainment most Chinese can afford (admission: 10?) are improved, thanks to a "trend away from the heavily propagandized production." In China's feverish attempt to educate its illiterate masses, schools are so crowded that students who finish one grade have to work on farms until there is room in the next...