Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eddie's Father is an instant rerun of Julia. Bill Bixby, the ersatz nephew of My Favorite Martian, plays the widowed parent, and an accomplished seven year old named Brandon Cruz is the son searching for a mom -any old mom. By happy circumstance, Brandon is far less objectionable than Diahann Carroll's TV offspring, and he even seems to like his father. The show also appropriates a few gimmicks from contemporary cinema-stop-action photography, voice-over conversation and background bursts of rock music-but Eddie remains one of those programs that show the inherent dangers...
PARKINSON'S LAW. The FTC has been doing steadily less work with more people. In fiscal 1962, the commission opened 1,795 formal investigations of suspected business abuses. Last year it opened only 611. "We are perplexed by the magnitude of the reduction," said the A.B.A. study. The FTC staff increased from 1,126 to 1,230 between...
Fear of Conseouences. The captain finally decided to abandon the McClure challenge, and the ships turned around and headed for the less hazardous Prince of Wales Strait. As the Manhattan cleared the last patch of ice, the crew and guests poured champagne to celebrate. From there, it was only 500 miles of open water to the oilfields at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska...
...FitzGibbon starts from that consensus, and with the feeling that at the time "it would not have been possible, either psychologically or politically, simply to ignore the monstrous crimes committed in the name of the Third Reich." How just or justified the Allied judgment was seems to FitzGibbon far less clear. "Theologically," he observes, " 'collective guilt' must be a meaningless term since there is no such thing as 'collective soul.'" He adds: "Legally, it makes more sense: accomplices are also found guilty in courts...
...band of some 20 to 30 persons invaded the Center for International Affairs shortly after noon yesterday, roughing up several staff members and employees before running away from the building less than 15 minutes later...