Word: gitlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analyze events. In that field, the most notable effort so far this year is being made by a former college instructor and science researcher who bears the improbable title of Executive Producer, Creative Projects, NBC News and Public Affairs. A cigar-smoking, rumpled, un-Brooks Brotherly type, Irving Gitlin, 42, jumped networks last May after being instrumental (as CBS's Director of Public Affairs) in the development of Twentieth Century, Face the Nation, Conquest and other first-rate shows. "CBS is a mature situation," says Gitlin. "NBC is ripening." Translation: having lagged far behind CBS in information coverage...
...Nation's Future. A weekly, hour-long series of debates. Gitlin started by making a list of 50 "impossible" opponents, e.g., Ben-Gurion and Nasser, is still trying to line up as many as possible. The first, hardly sensational encounter, on Nov. 12, joins Atomic Scientists Edward Teller and Leo Szilard on disarmament...
...Outside Gitlin's domain is one of NBC's greatest assets this year: Robert Saudek's memorable Omnibus, which, after a season off the air and years of scuttling back and forth between networks, resumes on NBC next month. The first show studies the various ways in which U.S. Presidents have used their power...
...well-publicized stir created by Gitlin's NBC projects, his old network under CBS News President Sig Mickelson still holds the most solid ground in information programs. Among the news shows and durable holdovers...