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Admittedly, Kennedy has not yet spoken out in specific terms on the "increasingly dangerous, unsolved, long-postponed problems" that lie "beneath today's surface gloss of peace and prosperity." But seven years of an Eisenhower Presidency have made the office itself and way it is executed an issue of importance. Kennedy's pledge of a vigorous Presidency is a welcome and promising start for his campaign. If he can continue to discuss the issues on a realistic and intelligent basis, he may be able to keep the 1960 race from the usual level of slogans and petty side issues. Cassandra...
...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
Reaching behind the widely used notion that all entertainment is built on artful deception, Doerfer warned that programs which "contain a deceptive gloss above the accepted tolerances of dramatic license" might be outlawed in the next session of Congress, since shows that lure viewers unethically are using unfair means to outdo the sponsor's commercial competitors. "If the industry does not successfully survive that crisis," concluded Chairman Doerfer, "it has no one to blame but itself...
Governor, decided to put a high gloss on her second tongue. At Manhattan's Columbia University School of General Studies, Mia plunged into an intermediate English course for foreign students, four one-hour classes a week...
...Center. Actually, the times have changed more than Aalto. His use of traditional materials-wood, brick, copper-and rough textures now seems a welcome antidote to too much slickness and gloss. Aalto still insists as firmly as ever: "Architecture-the real thing-is only to be found when man stands in the center...