Word: fcc
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...that the nation's capital has long needed a public institution of higher education is to understate the obvious. Before FCC, the only place that many D.C. high school graduates could attend was D.C. Teachers College, which has been dismally unfit for the task, recently running into accreditation problems. Eventually it will be taken over by FCC...
...FCC administrators realize that they cannot solve these problems overnight. The admissions office received close to 7000 applications for the first year, before it stopped accepting them, and only about 2250 full and part-time students will be able to attend this year. Those accepted were taken on a lottery basis, in keeping with the college's policy of open admissions, and several hundred others who were not accepted were placed in other colleges around the country...
Last week Senate Republicans led by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen combined to shield Nixon from a TV debate by killing a bill, already passed by the House, that would have cleared the way for the encounter by temporarily suspending FCC equal-time regulations. Dirksen pointed out that Senate Democrats, including Hubert Humphrey, had opposed a similar bill four years ago to permit debates between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater -and had done so for the same tactical reasons. Dirksen might also have noted that when Humphrey was in the lead during contention for the Democratic nomination, he steadfastly refused...
...Cantor Story), a variety-show M.C. on television (briefly), and a TV producer (also briefly). This last imitation precipitated a ruckus that began at CBS four years ago. Brasselle had sold three programs, sight unseen, to his pal, CBS-TV President James (''The Smiling Cobra") Aubrey. The FCC and Aubrey's CBS bosses thought that this was a little strange, especially since the shows were dogs (The Reporter, The Baileys of Balboa, The Car a Williams Show). In addition, CBS had become increasingly uncomfortable over rumors about Aubrey's private life...
Dissenting Views. Disgusted at the FCC's unwillingness to play a more aggressive role, a few of the seven commissioners have begun voicing their dissenting views. Chief maverick is Nicholas Johnson, 34, a former law professor at the University of California, who argues: "We haven't got any plan, we have no goal, we have no idea of where American communications will be in 20 years." One commissioner, Robert Bartley, openly argues for the FCC's abolition and the division of its functions among three new agencies. "Let's burn down the old house with...