Word: minow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Hagerty, 52, catalogued his altered preoccupations since leaving Dwight Eisenhower's employ: "My foreign policy-establishment of peaceful coexistence with Madison Avenue. My complex of domestic problems-Huntley-Brinkley and Doug Edwards. My economy at home-cost control. And the awesome question of war and peace-Newton Minow...
Horses & Crime. The oat still thrives. CBS's Marshal Dillon (James Arness) now has one solid hour to thicken the air with Gunsmoke; and the imitable Paladin, clearly out to impress the FCC's rootin' tootin' Newton Minow, was reading a Dostoevsky novel during an episode of this year's Have Gun, Will Travel...
...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...
...damns advertising as "venal poetry," and Historian Arnold Toynbee contends that it is the unholy idol of materialism (TIME, Sept. 22). Some of the most articulate critics occupy influential jobs in Government, from U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow, who has lambasted TV's "many screaming, cajoling and offending commercials...
...Lucius Gary and the other commissioners the right to delegate decision-making authority on minor cases to staff members. Just a week before, the House had casually brushed aside, by a 323-to-77 vote, a New Frontier bill to increase the authority of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow. And in the new mood of the Congress, the worst was yet to come for the Kennedy Administration. Items...