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...forests for the convenience of hunters, offer phones with gentle chimes for those who cannot stand the regular bells. Even former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, a voluble critic of many other institutions, told a Senate committee last year: "Having just returned from Europe, I would say hooray for the phone service you get here...
...almost single-minded concentration, many Americans seemed to want a respite from national and world affairs. Last week neither Cuba nor a somewhat shaky Common Market, neither the laggard 88th Congress nor the problems of the Atlantic Alliance, sparked much interest. Said former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow: "Like most people, I haven't fully comprehended that the President is gone. I think the general mood is very mixed-one of sorrow and of comfort. Luckily, there is no international crisis at the moment." But there was some talk about the health of the economy, the prospects...
When new FCC Chairman E. Wil liam Henry stood before a thousand broadcasters in Manhattan last week, what could he do to be as wastelandish as his predecessor Newton Minow? Since Minow had attacked TV programming, commercials were obviously the largest remaining target. Henry went after them. Citing a recent case in which a disk jockey was told by his station to "play a record between each commercial," Henry told the broadcasters that there are just too many commercials being rammed at the public. He complained about the "bait, hook, switch, and stuff" tactics of late movies, which offer...
Many people think that as FCC chairman, Henry will have an even louder bark than Minow. He speaks dourly of the "discouraging degree of sameness" in network programming and of the "lack of expression of varying tastes, ideas and opinions." And he speaks with the air of someone who intends to try to do something about it. As for Minow's accomplishments, Henry says, "I think there are some green shoots in the wasteland." It might also be said that there is one as chairman...
After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission...