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Smith's suggested solution: let the networks control and develop their own programs, selling advertisers only the right to insert commercials. Sponsors would be charged on a sliding scale, varying with the actual size of the listening audience. Under such a system, networks could offer a balanced bill of fare, and they could find sponsors (at lower rates) for programs with restricted audiences, such as the Toscanini concerts and the Budapest String Quartet...
...prankster took advantage of the confusion and noise that resulted from the singing of German folksongs to insert a nail in the lock of the door, thus jamming it. The unfortunate victims, alarmed at the prospect of spending a night in the Tower, frantically summoned the firemen in the hopes that a ladder would extricate them from their embarrassment...
...cruel beating it had taken. It is hardly recognizable as the bill which the President recommended last July. Besides knocking out most of its powers to control prices, the committee had allowed the potent farm bloc to insert a wildly inflationary clause which Administration experts said might well bring on a rise of 20% in food costs. As for wage control, the Administration did not ask nor the committee grant any ceiling on wages...
...Mimetic smiledness as related to handedness: an indicator of basic modes of human adaptation." He described his "smilometer," a wooden box almost five feet long filled with machinery as intricate as a Rube Goldberg invention. At one end an oval opening is cut out for a patient to insert his face. Inside the box is: I) a time clock; 2) a movie projector which reels off Mickey Mouse or The Ugly Duckling on a small translucent screen; 3) a concealed motion-picture camera which takes shots of the patient's smiles...
...years: His personality is rough and bearish; he may run rather than walk. He can build a tower of six or seven cubes, insert a square block in a square hole. He also throws and kicks a ball, knows 50 words, puts dolls to bed, talks about his experiences, asks for food and toilet...