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...program is, in the deepest sense, a Christian show, aimed at a reassurance and realization. A typical song speaks of nakedness, "some are fancy on the inside, some are fancy on the outside"; a typical low-keyed show is devoted to a trip to a hospital or to the barber. In each case, the child is treated as a person of intelligence and sensitivityunlike the audiences on most rival shows. "It is no secret that commercial children's TV has reached an all-time low," Rogers testified at Senate hearings last year. "At best, most of these programs...
...some respects undesirable goal. Heath is seeking to reverse or at least to redirect the trend of British life established by the Labor Party and its extensive welfare measures. The beginnings of Heath's quiet revolution were outlined in a budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber presented to a packed House of Commons last week. The budget's basic aim is to reduce government spending and the scope of government activity while encouraging individual citizens and private enterprise to do more for themselves. The initial step was Britain's first tax cut in eleven years...
...Churchill when he returned to power in 1951 after six years of Labor rule. The new budget eliminates funds for the nationalization of the ports, halts grants for industry and the building of tourist hotels and will begin phasing out aid for London commuter rail lines. "Our object," explained Barber, "is to widen the area within which industry rather than government will take decisions...
...have been released to students and reporters as part of the Kennedy Library's "oral history" project. The facility, which is temporarily housed at the Federal Records Center in Waltham, has over 900 interviews on tape with associates of Kennedy-ranging from the members of his Cabinet to the barber who cut his hair in the White House...
...management's view, the strike will decide whether the U.S. auto industry is destined to join the long list of others -textiles, radios, shoes, barber chairs -that can no longer freely and vigorously compete against lower wage foreign manufacturers. In July, imported cars captured an alltime high 15.6% of the nation's auto market. Last week Chevrolet Chief John Z. DeLorean observed that U.S. wage rates are 2.1 times as high as Germany's, 2.8 times Britain's and four times Japan's. Though wages abroad are leaping ahead faster in percentage terms than those...