Word: crime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRIEND TONY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). James Whitmore is a scientific crime fighter, and John Woodruff and Enzo Cerusico are his legmen in the premiere of this new mystery comedy series...
...commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families around Los Angeles outnumbered those in the city's heart. With an astonishing 40% of the nation's poor now living in suburbs, crime and pollution problems are growing at the same rate there as in the central cities. Many suburbanites are without adequate sewers, police protection, garbage disposal and public transportation...
...Does TV cause riots? Are children growing insensitive to brutality because of crime programs? So went the questions put last week by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower. The commission, in effect, wondered whether TV is the mirror or the molder of society. After three days of hearings, it wound up with a full range of conflicting answers...
...reaping the harvest of having laid it on the line at a time when many Americans are reluctant to accept the images reflected by the mirror we have held up to our society." Goodman seconded the notion. "The medium," he said, "is blamed for the message." In defense of crime programs, Stanton maintained that "throughout history, violence has had a prominent place in art, drama and literature...
Though the Election Year rhetoric has subsided, law and order - one of the big issues in the campaign - remains a national concern. Last week the FBI reported that crime in the U.S. rose 19% in the first nine months of 1968 over the same period last year. Most of this crime occurs in the nation's larger cities, and a good portion of it during the predawn hours, when most citizens are home in bed. Presumably, police would be as alert in the early morning as at any other time. Yet the sorry fact is that while the cities...