Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready for presidential signature this week: a bill designed to put an end to what the U.S. broadcasting industry considers a ridiculous abuse of the so-called "equal-time" rule, by which any station that puts a political candidate on the air must give equal time to every other qualified candidate who demands it. The bill amends the Communications Act to exempt bona fide newscasts and news programs from the provision. The need for an amendment arose last spring, when the FCC issued an interpretation holding that equal time applied not only to campaign speeches but also to news programs...
...orthodox Roman Catholics differ in their judgments about Harvard's "challenge" to their faith. One half of the staunch Catholics have never "reacted either partially or wholly" against the Church, but about an equal number affirm there was a time when their views "could fairly have been called 'agnostic' or 'atheistic.'" Generalizations for the Catholics at Harvard are thus difficult to draw...
...president finally collided head-on with the student body in the justly-famed riot of 1834, a protest that has no equal in Harvard history. It started mildly enough--a few bonfires in the Yard livened by gun-powder-stuffed logs--then a dispute between the Latin professor and the freshmen and sophomores, and the inevitable Faculty crackdown. The College bell started to ring mysteriously during the night, and more broken windows appeared every...
...Concerning Natural Religion is evidently one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Baptist in those ordeals, and many a fashionable parish the scion of its most prominent Episcopalian. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress; one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection of God comes through progress towards understanding one's emotional condition." Another similarly explains, "psychological insight: God is a product of man; the most valuable part...
What the National Education Association calls for is a "significant" inoculation of federal money. The Government is already spending $2 billion yearly on education. A full dose would be strong medicine. If the "educational deficit" is really $9 billion, it is equal to more than 10% of the entire federal budget. No Congress would dream of spending that amount without peering into curriculums, and the prospects are not cheery...