Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lisbon's cafes and stores announcing a demonstration the next day at the U.S. embassy. When U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick requested protection,, the police advised him that they would be powerless to stop the demonstrators, sent only a token force of 30 men. The government TV network dispatched a full set of TV cameras and crews...
...frenetic busyness-its elaborate fund raising, telephoning, canvassing, cooking-but he brings to it a new insight in his suggestion that all this drudgery has become "a Protestant system of penance . . . Members atone for their guilt by performing unpleasant tasks for the organization; to this extent, the organizational network becomes a secularized penitential system." By rejecting sacramental penance in favor of activity, Protestantism, Winter feels, is draining off energies "which could flow into creative ministries" and is becoming a vehicle of what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called cheap grace (TIME...
...threatens the health." But although Presi dent Charles de Gaulle (once a two-pack-a-day man) long ago swore off smoking on doctors' advice, the toxicologist's speech, unlike the rest of the festivities, was not broadcast over France's govern ment-owned radio-TV network. For to bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then discovered that her husband was a tobacco merchant. That very night. Napoleon is supposed to have signed the decree nationalizing the weed, and a golden...
With this Murrow's former boss agreed. "All CBS Reports shows are scheduled to go into full syndication, including foreign," said Richard S. Salant, president of the network's subsidiary, CBS News, which televised the show. "Murrow knew that at the time and knows it now." By week's end Murrow seemed to agree with his critics. His transatlantic intervention, said he ruefully, was "both foolish and futile...
...bloodstained 1960-61 season crawled toward its grave last week, it had proved one thing to everybody's satisfaction: it was the worst in the 13-year history of U.S. network television...