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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bulletproof glass and riot shutters guard the main entrance. A tunnel enables employees to enter the building from a parking lot, and all must carry cards to gain admittance. Even so, last week a militant black leader managed to slip in and appear in the city room to berate an editor. Simultaneously, the editor's phone rang. It was a proud guard, calling to report that he had stopped two men trying to get by. They turned out to be FBI agents...
...next four shows in the series, taped last spring at weekly intervals, resemble Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Returning members of the studio audience discuss their withdrawal symptoms ("It was a bath of fire," moaned one man) and other problems (weight gain, anxiety). They also hear testimonials from ex-smokers. In addition, to make his message more visual and urgent, Frederickson projects film of cancer-riddled lungs or of an emphysema patient who does not have enough breath to blow out a match. From time to time, a Laugh-In-style "crawl" message crosses the bottom of the TV screen with...
Harvard no longer has the pressure of preserving a six-year win streak, and has everything to gain by beating Penn in the Sprints. Penn, on the other hand, must resist the over-confidence that comes with being rated Number...
...Despite considerable grumbling among businessmen, repeal of the 7% investment tax credit seems almost sure to win congressional approval. Once a supporter of the tax credit, Nixon changed his mind last month after surveys showed that corporate spending on new plant and equipment was heading for an inflationary 14% gain this year. Its immediate repeal is intended to make a slowdown in actual corporate spending mesh with the time next year when a lowered tax surcharge would give consumers more pocket money...
...Association's platform reflected this public-persuasion strategy. Instead of dealing with specific proposals like ghetto school improvement, it concentrated on broad tactics. It planned to "gain active participation from as broad a segment of the community as possible," and to "provide mechanisms for citizens and business leaders to work in the best interests of the schools...