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...half-hour talk, he summed up his own major disappointment in office: "I wish I could say that a lasting peace is in sight." He also issued a warning to the nation. The U.S., he said, must resist the temptation to meet each new crisis with "spectacular and costly action." Instead, "each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped-for advantage . . . balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare...
With that request of Winston Spencer Churchill, taken from a wartime speech. ABC this week began a television series worthy of its subject and his words. Called Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, its 26 half-hour segments will draw material from all six volumes of Church ill's World War II memoirs, using film clips made on both sides of battle to provide-if all episodes prove as excellent as the first-a graphic and unforgettable text in modern history...
...lifetime of experience with men who want to lead and men who can lead, there is no question . . ."), and warning in a powerful last-minute offensive that a Democratic victory would mean inflation, high prices and cheap dollars. And there was Nixon himself, all but crowded out of a half-hour, coast-to-coast telecast by the prolonged reception for Ike's Manhattan speech, grinning widely and shouting: "I'm always glad to give up my time to the President of the United States...
...First half-hour: modern chemistry under Dr. John F. Baxter of the University of Florida; second half-hour: contemporary mathematics under Dr. John J. Kelley of the University of California...
...printed. (One delighted child hit the asterisk key 75 times to test teacher's stamina.) Sitting beside his "student" in a gadget-filled booth, which has 60-odd switches to pique the child's curiosity, the instructor also projects the chosen letters on a screen. After each half-hour typing session, the child prints the letters on a blackboard, soon works up to complete words and eventually to sentences...