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Earlier this month Mr. Minow went before the National Association of Broadcasters, and told them bluntly that violence and medicocrity make contemporary television programming a "vast wasteland" which "squanders the public's airwaves." And, in words even less welcome to his audience, he promised the use the now virtually dormant powers of the FCC to improve the quality of programs. Specifically, he promised to make the triennial renewal of station licenses more than a formality, and, through public hearings, demand that the stations prove that they are living up to their pledge to operate "in the public interest...
...test this theory Pappenheimer needed an experimental animal in which the blocking of cytochrome synthesis would produce readily detectable effects. The Cecropia silk worm satisfied the requirement. During both the caterpillar phase and the period of adult development Cecropia produces substantial quantities of cytochromes. In the dormant pupa stage, though, the enzymes occur in only trace amounts. By showing that resistance to diphtheria toxin in the pupa stage is much greater than during other phases, Pappenheimer furnished compelling evidence for his theory...
Died. Perry Wilbon Howard, 83, crafty Negro politician and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, who was the absentee ruler of the long-dormant state organization for more than 30 years while he ran a law firm in Washington, D.C.. and whose "Black and Tan" faction was ousted last year when a "Lily White" Republican delegation was seated at the Republican National Convention; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...readers of the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise are no strangers to proposals in ornate Victorian prose to turn the clock back. Some time after he revived the long dormant Enterprise for a plaything in 1952, aging (57) Dandy Lucius Beebe, onetime high-society chronicler for the New York Herald Tribune, genially proclaimed: "The editorial policy of the Enterprise is benevolent backwardness-reaction against everything." Last week the enterprising Enterprise, tongue only half in cheek, declared that since the centennial of the Civil War is to be observed next year, it might be fitting to reverse history and have...
...third quarter was primarily a ground battle between the 30 yard stripes, but at the beginning of the final period the Cadets' dormant offense came alive. The Black Knights went 85 yards to score, with Wayne Williams passing to Bill Perdew from nine yards out. The conversion again failed...