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...have responsibility for what is on the air," said CBS's Dr. Stanton. "May I interrupt here, Frank?" said Bob Kintner. "At NBC we accept responsibility for what is on the air, too." Not to be outdone, FTC Chairman Earl Kintner (no kin to NBC's Bob) announced: "This commission is determined to take the responsibility to keep the spigots open. We hope there's a trickle down to the stations that make up the industry." As for Mutual, it had already eliminated one offensive word from all ad copy broadcasts on the network. The word: diarrhea...
...26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler's pill-drugged sleep with news of the invasion until the official Allied communique. Wakened in the forenoon of June 6, Hitler ranted, as always, at his generals, and clung to the illusion that the invasion was another Dieppe-style raid...
...breakfast all right, although he didn't feel much like eating. One of his room-mates, with whom he was sitting, changed tapes for him, and Vag did not stir throughout the meal, although his amplifier uttered occasional comments which, although often ill-timed, were inconsequential enough not to interrupt the conversation around...
Private Occasion. Serious-minded Steven and his Anne-Marie seemed genuinely stunned at the world response to their wedding. At first they were glad to interrupt their jaunts on Steven's motorcycle and chat with the trickle of arriving newsmen. Then their eyes glazed at the continual flaring of flashbulbs, the eager and often idiotic questions of a growing flood of newsmen and newswomen...
...ousted President Fulgencio Batista, he sees Castro's regime as a benevolent sort of one-man rule. Wrote he: "Premier Castro is avoiding elections in Cuba for two reasons. He feels that his social revolution now has dynamism and vast popular consent, and he does not want to interrupt the process. Moreover, most observers would agree that Cubans today do not want elections...