Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Setmakers blame the networks. "The most important reason for the lack of color television sales is the selfish attitude-the public-be-damned attitude-of the money-hungry, profit-hungry television networks [which] have refused to make any really serious effort toward heavy color programing," said Admiral Corp.'s President Ross D. Siragusa recently...
...networks blame the setmakers and dealers. "If those manufacturers who complain about our poor programing would sell color sets as energetically as we program color, there would be no problem in getting color further off the ground," snapped NBC's President Robert Sarnoff. But Sarnoff was admittedly an interested witness, since RCA. NBC's parent company, makes nearly all the color sets sold, and has by far the largest investment in color's success. CBS, which has no such involvement, admits it is not boosting color at the moment, has in fact cut its color programs nearly...
...late to avoid chopping a fatal 4-ft.-wide gash in Stickleback's side. Before sinking to the bottom, Stickleback managed to surface under its own power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers cheerfully gave the submarine all the blame, and Stickleback's skipper even admitted that he had unaccountably lost power during his dive. But all the same the crewmen of the Bad Ship Silverstein would never forget that, in addition to all their other troubles, they had now sunk a friendly submarine in friendly waters...
...adulterers play in luck. Larry gives up a fine job to be near Margaret. But when it comes to planning the future, they would like a really full life; they want each other and their married mates as well. Author Evan Hunter suggests that life in suburbia is to blame, mutters vaguely that even success and a happy family are not enough for a man whose inner urges push beyond the humdrum life at the other...
Longevity may be partly to blame. Of the Globe's 1,500 employees, 398 have been with the paper for more than 25 years, 30 for more than 50. Globe Editor Larry Winship has fired only one editorial staffer* in 44 years. Whatever the cause, says one managing editor, "we have too many 9-to-5 reporters. For every five people on your staff, you have one newspaperman. The others are hanging on his back...