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...role in combatting the demagoguery of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s was far less noble than it has been portrayed. The network followed the political blacklist in its hiring. Paley was never behind Edward R. Murrow's famous documentary series See It Now, and Murrow and Co-Producer Fred Friendly spent their own money to advertise it. Paley eventually killed the show, saying: "I don't want this constant stomachache every time you do a controversial subject...
Among the exiles are members of Portugal's legendary "Twenty Families" -the tight-knit, moneyed oligarchy that completely dominated their nation's economy and cooperated closely with the fascist regime. While an M.F.A. blacklist prohibits all wealthy businessmen from emigrating, many have managed to flee. Some literally walked across the border into Spain, while others sailed from Portugal's ports in their yachts -before the navy began patrolling the coast to prevent such escapes...
...directors in America is a different story from the future of Czech cinema. Some of the best have left the country (the last to leave was Jan Nemec who arrived in Paris last summer, after six years of not being allowed to shoot). Those who stayed are on the blacklist, and to be blacklisted in Prague--as well as in Hollywood in the fifties--means to lose the possibility to do creative work for many years. Ivan Passer once related how eager he was to start shooting his first American movie, Born to Win (1971). He said that filmmaking...
...unilaterally terminated their ROTC programs. The policy was adopted three years ago and strengthened last year at the insistence of former committee chairman F. Edward Hebert (D-La), who lost the powerful chairmanship in January. The committee's chief counsel said this week that if any reversal of the blacklist decision were to be made this year, the new policy probably would have been agreed upon during the Armed Services Committee's already completed annual authorization hearings for fiscal year...
...Business School, which used to reserve 15 places in its Advanced Management Program for military personnel, is the Harvard graduate school most directly affected by the blacklist rule...