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...bring out not only the prayers but the Don Rickles in most people. Michigan's Democratic Congressman John Dingell said last week that the FCC people "are in such a horrible quagmire of past failures that they can't face any of the problems before them." Newton Minow, the FCC's critical and scholarly ex-chairman, recalls that it was all "a quixotic world of undefined terms, private pressures and tools unsuited to the work." Some of the incumbent commissioners throw up their hands. The youngest of them, Nicholas Johnson, 33, says: "We haven...
Chairman Rosel Hyde, 67, is a longtime civil servant whose elevation by President Johnson was welcomed by broadcasters who had been uncomfortable under the crusading oratory of Newton Minow and William Henry. The commissioners carrying on the fight today are Nick Johnson, a former Federal Maritime administrator, and Kenneth Cox, 51, an ex-Seattle attorney...
...network, he was using the enlisted-men's washroom." And he has certainly had the last say on the progress of television. After Newton Mi-now's 1961 complaint that TV was a "vast wasteland," Hope measured television's subsequent progress and concluded: "Mr. Newton Minow is a man of high ideals, whose needling, prodding and constructive suggestions have led our great industry up the path to The Beverly Hillbillies...
...afternoon soap operas. So does Artur Rubinstein, who on request can unravel the complicated plots of a half dozen of the soapers. ("Those organs!" says Rubinstein, holding his nose and unmistakably imitating their quavering tone.) William Buckley says that he finds no time for TV, but Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chairman who described TV as a "vast wasteland," still watches fairly regularly. Among his favorites: Get Smart...
NEWTON N. MINOW Chicago...