Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, February 7 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Charles Kuralt and cameramen track the abortive attempt last spring of an eleven-man team, headed by Minnesota Insurance Agent Ralph Plaisted, to become the first surface motorized expedition (riding snowmobiles) to reach the North Pole...
...CBS says no. Tommy says yes. Dickie sighs. CBS says bad taste. Tommy, popping another ulcer pill into his mouth, says O.K., we quit. Dickie yawns elaborately. CBS says O.K., O.K., you can say, "Good night all you draft dodgers in Canada. We'll probably be seeing you next November," but no fair using that line "Go fa la la yourself...
...goes each week at Los Angeles' Television City, as the Smothers brothers do battle with the men from CBS's program-practices department-otherwise known as the censors. Ever since the brothers started their Sunday-evening variety series a year ago, they have been pressing for satire with a strong social comment or, as they describe it, "put-ons with a point." Very often the points are too cutting for the network and it insists on doing some cutting of its own. Dickie is understanding about it, but Tommy is outraged. In one of his frequent debates with...
Mild Heart. He may have a point. The sturdiest argument that the Smothers brothers have is the show's ratings; this season, attracting a youthful following that regards them as hippies with haircuts, it has consistently ranked among the top variety shows. On the opening program in September, CBS showed signs of giving in a little. The network approved the guest appearance of Folk Singer Pete Seeger, who had been blackballed by the networks since he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. But then CBS turned right around and banned one of Seeger...
...provide perspective, which in this case was superfluous, NET staged a 60-minute debate between two differing Asia hands from academe. The discussion was urbane and informed but not particularly illuminating. Former CBS Correspondent David Schoenbrun, now a professor of Vietnamese history at Columbia University, conceded that Greene's "emphasis on civilian targets gave a false impression," but called the film "a useful counterpoint to our own propaganda." Robert Scalapino, who teaches political science at Berkeley, observed that the documentary "did not mention the word 'Communism' once," and summed up that it "presented North Viet...