Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly and Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, were convicted of tax fraud conspiracy, last week won an appeal for a hearing on their demand for a retrial...
...professional life. He has contended with networks, ad agencies and sponsors over what he could say, scrapped with directors over how to say it, become TV's most outspoken authority on the devious ways of television censorship. But short (5 ft. 5 in.) Author Serling is more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled by CBS on the fanciest terms ever offered a TV writer-$10,000 apiece for three Playhouse 90 scripts, 40% ownership in CBS's forthcoming science fiction series titled Twilight Zone, plus freedom, to turn out four scenarios...
...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 in half in the last year. Explained CBS Vice President Richard S. Salant: "There's no public demand and no advertiser interest. Nobody gives a damn now. Suddenly, some day, color TV will blossom. We guessed wrong when we thought it would come much sooner." ABC has no color programs at all, and no plans to mount any in the near future...
Most of the lessons demand radical wrenches from the status quo-but Puerto Rico's ground-breaking example is impressing the whole world. In the garden of a bungalow overlooking Amman in Jordan last week. Social Welfare Director Hussein Bushnak sipped Turkish coffee and spoke with warmth of his visit to Puerto Rico. "Before I went there, I had been told that work of great importance had been done." he said. "But I was astonished at the scope of what I saw." He added: "The Governor is an impressive man. He has achieved much...
...that any real pickup would have to come from copper consumers, who have yet to increase their buying. Said Phelps Dodge's President Robert G. Page: "There has been more buying in two or three days, but this in itself is not evidence of a pickup in consumer demand. More likely such buying is speculative. It is premature to predict a rise in producers' prices...