Word: emption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, regularly scheduled programs have been getting longer. This season there will be 31 half-hour shows, 36 full-hour programs, three 90-minute extravaganzas and seven two-hour blockbusters. Even 30-minute comedies are being bunched in groups of three, for easy pre-emption by 90-minute specials. The long programs are so schedule-disrupting that they cannot help causing a fundamental change in the old 26-week parade of series episodes, since fewer programs will ride out a season uninterrupted...
...Revenue Service should issue cards to people with family incomes of less than $12,000 a year; holders of such cards would be exempted from paying sales taxes. Beyond that fetching if improbable idea, serious reform might include a doubling of the federal income tax's $600 ex emption per dependent. The states could help lower-income communities by easing the ruinous burden of local school taxes, replacing them with a graduated statewide tax that might equalize city and suburban allocations for schools and benefit both blacks and whites...
...Washington, U.S.-network bigwigs were expecting to meet at the White House to complain about the President's increasing pre-emption of prime TV time on short notice. Instead of a meeting, Johnson produced a new short-notice request. As soon as possible, he said, he wanted to use Early Bird to broadcast a V-E anniversary speech direct to Europe. Three and one-half hours later, in a slow and measured drawl, he was chiding Charles de Gaulle live on British and Italian TV screens, and being taped for later rebroadcast in almost every other European nation...