Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation. NBC, which has been taking losses since 1973 on its network radio broadcasts, is trying to reverse those fortunes with a round-the-clock, syndicated all-news package. News and Information Service, as the venture is called, originates from the old Monitor studio in Rockefeller Center and is fed live over telephone lines to subscribing stations for 50 minutes of every hour. The other ten minutes are set aside for local news, but stations can devote up to 36 minutes to local programming if they choose to. When the service first opened its mouth at 6:06.30 a.m. last...
BRAINWASHING. Concerned over Soviet and North Korean brainwashing techniques, the CIA in the late 1940s and early '50s began testing the effects of behavior-influencing drugs, radiation and electric shock. Many of the records were later destroyed. But the commission learned that the CIA had fed LSD to a number of unsuspecting people between 1953 and '63. In one case in 1953, an employee of the Army developed such serious side effects that he was sent to New York for psychiatric treatment. Several days later, he jumped to his death from the tenth-floor window of his hotel...
...Prentice: "The Common Market campaign has united the majority of realistic and moderate politicians of all three parties. It has been a refreshing experience for us to work together in a common cause. I believe our cooperation has been welcomed by millions of people throughout Britain who have become fed up with the traditional party dogfight." When that encomium to cross-party cooperation brought shrill cries for his dismissal from left-wing Laborites, Prentice made it clear that he was not proposing a coalition government in any formal sense. Even so, he now stands in danger of being drummed...
...want, or does the rest of the world need, a Harvard that picks out an elite to do society's work when society's work means bombing Asian peasants, creating unemployment to stabilize a faltering economy, and cutting back on welfare to people who are already ill-fed, ill-housed, and ill-cared...
...world halfway be tween Disney and Dante. White Knights gallop through suburbia, housewives are absolved for ring around the collar, and stars and cowboys blissfully pull on their weeds, oblivious to the Surgeon Gener al's little memento mori in the corner -"dangerous to your health." The Fed eral Trade Commission, which has long labored to deflate the more extravagant pitches, last week published proposed guidelines to ensure that any celebrity shilling a product actually uses the thing if he or she claims...