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...recommended that Spain not enter the Common Market. Franco consulted his Cabinet, rushed through a decree suspending for two years the part of Spain's bill of rights that safeguards the Spaniards' right to make their residence anywhere in the nation. Then the police went out to nab the more important figures as they flew back from the Munich meeting. Gil Robles was among the first arrested at Madrid's Barajas airport. The cops read him the new government decree, offered him the choice of residence in Spain's faraway Canary Islands or exile abroad...
...against special previews of upcoming shows, CBS provided a special closed-circuit preview of the program last week to its affiliated stations and received the stamp of approval from Robert D. Swezey, director of the National Association of Broadcasters Code Authority. He said the show did not violate the NAB's code...
...rodders raced against each other and against a clock. Two by two, in a series of elimination heats, they "herded" their cars over a straight quarter-mile run, tested both acceleration and top speed as they were clocked through the same sort of electronic trap that cops use to nab speeders. Fastest of all were the Class AA dragsters, driven by such seasoned campaigners as 28-year-old Pete Robinson, an auto-parts manufacturer from Atlanta, who is the current U.S. champion. Stripped to the bare essentials-a naked steel frame, a bucket seat, racing tires, a "go pedal...
Regardless of the justification for advertising hard liquor, however, Congress seems to be against it; and the NAB lobby may be the only influence against government regulation of radio advertising. To be effective, a lobby must be powerful, and in the case of the NAB, power can only be achieved with the support of most of the radio stations in the country. The reports from Washington that radio stations are increasing hard liquor advertising inevitably means a decline in the numerical strength of the NAB. Such a decline will reduce even further its effectiveness as a lobbying organization...
...NAB is to attain the stature it requires in the American broadcasting industry, it must act quickly and decisively. To attain respectability, it must strictly enforce the principles and provisions of the Code of Good Practices. To gain acceptability, it must adopt a more realistic policy on such subjects as hard liquor advertising...