Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bidding for political power, the Lower Congo's Abako Party announced it would boycott the December vote rather than submit to the "slowness" of Brussels' timetable. Hoping to gain control of the rival Congolese National Movement, an ambitious politician named Patrice Lumumba increased the ante. Fiery Lumumba, a 33-year-old former postal clerk and convicted embezzler, cried, "Total independence NOW NOW NOW," at a Stanleyville meeting of his followers, many of them armed with spears and painted as if for battle. Police rushed in to arrest Lumumba, and his supporters fought back, touching off two days...
Women live longer than men, but what kind of women live longest? Nuns, according to the results of two studies published by Dr. Con J. Fecher, professor of economics at the Roman Catholic University of Dayton (Ohio). The control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, to which members of a close community were especially prone, has added 14 years to a 20-year-old nun's life expectancy since the turn of the century. After comparing 90,000 nuns in 90 sisterhoods with white females throughout the U.S., from 1900 to 1958, Dr. Fecher also estimated that...
...failed to listen to a taped recording of a conversation between Stempel and Enright that made their collusion unmistakable to any normally skeptical man (TIME, Sept. 15, 1958). Only later, after other charges became public and a grand jury began to investigate, was the show taken under direct NBC control, and finally dropped. Said Kintner: "By hindsight, we recognize we should have dug deeper...
...April 22, 1957, more than a year before this time. The opening sentence indicates its tenor: "Are the quiz shows rigged?" It points out with reference to a number of quiz shows that there was a great deal of suspicion. It concludes: "The producers seem to be able to control virtually everything except their own fears of losing their audience...
...needed, produce completed films or live shows to order. This year some 300 packagers are providing 70% of the regularly scheduled network shows, a fact that to some critics explains many of TV's ills. With so much programing in the hands of outsiders, networks have little control; every rigged quiz started out as a packaged product. Some cozy alliances have been formed between the nets and packagers: NBC has traditionally catered to M.C.A. products, ABC to Warner's imitative westerns...