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Though Sesame Street's studio is modest??an old movie theater on Manhattan's upper Broadway­the budget is an impressive $28,000 per show. Yet because of its wide popularity, the switched-on school reaches its audience at a cost of about a penny per child; "a bargain," says Dr. Benjamin Spock, "if I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...speech to an American Bankers Association convention at Hot Springs, Va., Burns said frankly: "We have been less successful than we would have liked in moderating the advance of prices." Then he added: "There may be a useful?albeit a very modest???role for an 'incomes policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Economy: Crisis of Confidence | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...what type of man would most attract such a young woman (remember, she is earnest, honest)? Well, how about a mature, reticent, adventure-scarred world traveler. He should be enormously courageous, enormously patriotic; should have passed through incredible (almost) adventures and come out enormously modest???and of course unmarried. Let's see? the times are getting so Elizabethan?perhaps he ought to be so thoroughly a man of action that he swears occasionally and, yes, has had to know women, very wicked ones, in the course of his thrilling duty. His name could be Dessiter ? Colonel Dessiter. It might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Number 100 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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