Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio and TV networks have fought boldly for the right to editorialize -and timidly let it go virtually unused. Last week, for the second time in network history,* CBS exercised its right. In an editorial prepared by the network's little-known editorial board-headed by Chairman William S. Paley and President Frank Stanton-Washington Newsman Howard K. Smith charged that Americans are "overcomplacent, overaddicted to comfort, and indifferent to good government." He urged changes in the Pentagon to eliminate interservice chauvinism, called for readiness to negotiate for disarmament, warned: "We must be prepared to make sacrifices...
...many models of globes and satellites, a blinding melange of maps, diagrams and statistics that have already been hammered out by the press. But there were thrilling shots of an Atlas test failure, of the Titan ("the most sophisticated long-range missile") resting ominously on its pad. And CBS gave viewers the kind of peek inside bustling missile plants that newspapers do not provide. In matter-of-fact interviews, U.S. scientists and generals pulled no punches. Warned Air Force Missileman General Bernard Schriever: "It's safe to say the Russians have IRBMs now in operational units...
Intangibles. As accumulated by CBS, the balance sheet seemed to show that in the material things and the means of making them the U.S. still leads the Soviet Union; in actual strength it may be lagging, and in the crucial intangibles of intent and will power it may already be dangerously behind...
...York Dress Institute, and, though the twelve-place list repeated some regulars among the world's most chic, it also cited several newcomers to the derby. Luxuriating in her No. 1 spot for the fifth year in a row was Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of CBS's board chairman, closely trailed by two other perennials, the Duchess of Windsor and supersocial Mrs. Winston Guest. Soon after them came the year's big surprise: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, making her first appearance in the best-dressed list and more than outdistancing her unmentioned sister, Princess...
...temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist scholar, to Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi to pray and deliver-a little shakily-Lead, Kindly Light. Only once, before Burma's Premier, did modest Marian Anderson show any sign of discomfort. Eulogized U Nu for the CBS cameras: "The beauty and charm of your mind are fully expressed in the pair of your dazzling eyes and your childlike lips...