Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crassly Commercial. In broadcasting, wrote Rogers, "there is evidence of widespread corruption and lack of the personal integrity that is so essential to the fabric of American life." He also disposed of the excuse offered by network presidents for their crooked quiz shows, i.e., that they were merely duped by deceitful packagers; this, said Rogers, is neither a "practical excuse nor a legal one." But if he found broadcasters and advertisers crassly commercial, Rogers also found the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission incredibly casual. Beyond its licensing and rulemaking authority, the FCC has "investigatory power fully...
Late in 1958, U.S. negotiators met with the Russians and British in Geneva, proposed a system for monitoring nuclear bomb tests based on a network of 180 control stations. The U.S. has been regretting the offer ever since. Only two months later, U.S. scientists exploded a small nuclear device beneath a mesa in Nevada, which proved that such explosions were far harder to detect than the U.S. had supposed. Difficulty is that the Russians have embraced the 180-station system as if they had thought of it themselves. For months they refused even to listen...
...ammunition was a study made by the Rand Corp., at the suggestion of Dr. Edward Teller, director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing it in a large enough cavity, and thus can defeat the detection network. If anybody cared enough to dig a cave 3,000 ft. down and 950 ft. in diameter-an excavating job equal to removing a mass of material equal in volume to the concrete in 42 Grand Coulee dams-it would muffle a 300-kiloton bomb so much that the explosion...
Orange Bowl Football Game (CBS, 12:45 p.m.). Mississippi v. Georgia in Miami. As soon as the game ends, the network cameras will switch to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl game (Syracuse v. Texas...
Eyewitness to History: (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). With Walter Cronkite acting as M.C., the network news staff will report on the main events of 1959. Their biggest feature story: the impact of "traveling diplomacy" on international relations...