Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same shortage of sponsors for unrehearsed humor also killed the best new comedy show in years. The show: Keep Talking, a zany competition between teams of comic talkers trying to spin out a screwball tale while slipping in a screwball secret phrase that the opposition must spot. Literate and consistently funny, the show was carried by CBS all summer and into the fall without attracting a sponsor. Last week CBS decided that while it still liked Keep Talking, it could not afford to keep paying...
...throw away as much of it as possible. What they give instead is an illustrated lecture-on the art of timing, of diversionary tactics, of seeming to fondle dialogue while carefully holding it at arm's length. Even they cannot too often succeed; and in any case there must, for two such delightful performers, be infinitely more profitable roles...
...trustbusters agreed with Burns's reasoning that a pool would serve to spur color experimentation, foster industry wide cooperation, yet still not place RCA at a competitive disadvantage. Before color TV will be a success, say commercial manufacturers, a better and cheaper way must be found to make sets. Said a trustbuster: "The pool is an RCA gamble to open up the field...
...auto industry, one of the biggest problems is the long lead time needed to bring out new models. Because it takes at least 15 months to make the tools and dies needed for a new car, the designer must decide what the public is going to want nearly two years before the car actually comes out. For this reason designers often get caught with their plans down; there was little they could do about the revolt against chrome-and the demand for a small car. Last week General Motors and Ford were experimenting with a radical new electronic machine...
...must the resources of human ingenuity and the wrath of nations be turned more and more to the preparation of arms-pernicious instruments of death and destruction-instead of improving the welfare of all classes, particularly the poorer classes? We know, it is true, that to bring about so laudable, so praiseworthy a proposition and to level the differences there are grave and intricate difficulties in the way, but they must be victoriously overcome, even if by force: this is, in fact, the most important undertaking, connected with the prosperity of all mankind...