Word: kefauveritis
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Died. Abby Rockefeller Mauze, 72, eldest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and sister of Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; of cancer; in Manhattan. Thrice married, she dedicated much of her life to philanthropy. Among her beneficiaries were the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a...
Yet the decade was never quite so drab or stagnant as its detractors would have it. In the grayness of the day came the epochal desegregation decision; through the fever of the Kefauver hearings the acute viewer could perceive a glimpse of the Mafia mind. Amid the treacle of Your...
But that was long ago, and photography has come a long way, baby. Film is more sensitive. Lenses are cleverer and faster. For years people have been bombarded by sneak shots, candid exposes, sensitive impressions of subway straps, flying tackles artfully half-arrested in motion, slick distortions like the famous...
Nonetheless-as he is well aware-it was just such investigating committees that helped launch the national careers of Estes Kefauver, Harry Truman and Richard Nixon.
Television, like history, has no precedent for Watergate. There have been other scandals and hearings-notably Estes Kefauver's crime probe of 1951 and the Army-McCarthy confrontation of 1954-but those took place before the epoch of the Living Room War and the three-set family. Yet even...