Word: factualism
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...Director Frank (It Happened One Night) Capra revealed that he has been preparing a series of educational TV movies for the past year. Titled Man, the Explorer, each film will run about an hour as a "combination of entertainment and factual science like LIFE magazine is doing...
London papers last week broke out with a rash of black headlines forecasting changes in the Churchill government. The News Chronicle: CABINET RESHUFFLE ON THE WAY. The Daily Mail: CABINET CHANGES COMING SOON. The factual foundation for the stories was that Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, apparently recovered from the slight stroke he suffered in June, last week had moved back into his official residence, Chequers, and was seeing a lot of prominent Tories for luncheons, and whisky & sodas...
...stony meetings of rival belligerents on the Military Armistice Commission in Panmunjom, the Communists lodged 44 complaints of armistice violations, seriously pressed only one charge: an accusation that "bandits" representing Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek are being used to "intimidate" and "forcibly detain" Chinese and Korean prisoners. The factual basis to their charge: before they are moved north into neutral Indian custody for "explanations" by the Communists about why they should return home, anti-Communist prisoners are being reassured of their rights and opportunities. Chiang Kai-shek's picture, a statement in his name assuring Chinese prisoners...
...Many who profess not to be shocked by Kinsey's findings dispute them on the coldly factual basis that Kinsey has only his subjects' word that they are telling the truth. To this, Kinsey can only reply that he does the best he can to insure accuracy by a kind of cross-reference questioning, so that a subject who tias lied at the beginning of the interview will expose himself near the end. Beyond this, he has reinterviewed hundreds of subjects after lapses of two to ten years and they have told substantially the same story; this rules...
...their actual owners, the Chinese Communists. Next in line for the subcommittee's strictures were the State Department and MSA. Charged the investigators: "Since the beginning of the Korean war, our Government has had no clear-cut policy on China trade by our allies; they had inadequate factual information as to the kind, extent and effect of the trade; they lacked the forcefulness and vigor necessary to convince our allies that they should ban this trade...