Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The fourth show in this series, on "Prejudice and the Police," interviews Mayor Louie Welch of Houston, and his chief of police, shows direct confrontation with cops and members of minority communities. Psychological refereeing is provided by Drs. Melvin P. Sikes and Sidney Cleveland...
...U.S.S.R. have treated the consultations with increasing respect, while France-originally the 18th member-has never taken its seat, choosing instead to flex its nuclear muscle in the Sahara. Red China has declared the committee anathema. HOT LINE, 1963. A minor deterrent, the installation of a direct telecircuit between the White House and the Kremlin, was worked out by Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...commission of Greek jurists (TIME, Jan. 26). In its present form, the draft retains the monarchy, but severely limits the once broad powers of the throne. The King loses his most important function-that of appointing the Premier. In the future, the Premier will be chosen either in direct elections by the people or elected by Parliament. The King is also stripped of his post as commander of the armed forces and may no longer rule by decree in times of national emergency...
...documentary format, the only controls left to him were organizing and editing the documents and interviews which he had gathered. Sad to say, his performance of these two tasks was second-rate. The continuity of the book is jerky, again a result of Hersey's almost total reliance on direct quotes to tell the story. Irrelevant details abound throughout the book, dissipating most of the interest aroused by the terror of the actual episode. In their rush to publish the book, too, Hersey and his publishers have hurt the book. A myriad of proofing errors mar Hersey's pains-takingly...
...life our parents want us to live. For us, the only value is man, the only thing that matters is man." Sociologist Alain Touraine, 42, agrees that France "has become a society of things, not of ideas. The students reject not only the things but the authorities who direct that society-they do not believe in institutions like the university...