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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their part, both candidates have protested that there were marked differences between them. When they agreed to an hour-long televised debate, the nation looked forward to a spirited exchange of their divergent views. Anticlimactically, last week's spectacular, displacing the Hollywood Palace revue on the ABC network, was no showdown, and it wasn't even good show biz. It was downright dull. Nearly two-thirds of the way through the confrontation, Moderator Frank Reynolds declared plaintively: "Well, there don't seem to be very many differences between Lyou] on anything, really...
...oversimplified, misleading and distorted." Pretty strong words for a Cabinet member to use, but Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman was in a foaming rage over CBS's recent "Hunger in America" documentary, which had levelled an equally angry attack on Government food programs. Freeman demanded equal time from the network to refute the "greatest abuse ever seen on the tube" and "to assure the hungry of this nation that the Department of Agriculture is doing what it can for them-and wants to do a great deal more." He charged CBS with "gross errors of fact," but the network disagreed...
Wall Posters. Randell makes money through a network of 581 part-time campus representatives, who earn up to $4,000 a year distributing samples, doing market research and peddling fad items. Last year, for example, they sold 55,000 paper dresses in 27 days for Mars Manufacturing Co., topped that by selling 100,000 personality and psychedelic wall posters (at $1 each). At a higher level, the company sold 105,000 youth air-fare identification cards for American Airlines-and kept $2 of the $3 price of each card for its effort. To help manufacturers boost sales of everyday products...
...through news and public-affairs programming that TV has made its greatest impact on racial matters. The industry cliche of the month is "tell it like it is." The National Education Television network and individual stations in at least three U.S. cities have worked up programs using variants of that phrase for a title. One production is aimed at the Negro audience; the others explain the ghettos' problems to the white world. CBS is preparing a history and cultural series tracing the U.S. Negro back to the time of the slave traders. ABC last week announced a sixpart exploration...
...State Security Committee (KGB), whose twin specialties were NATO espionage and the dissemination of "black propaganda" to undercut enemy agencies; of undisclosed causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. As one of three deputies in the KGB's Division I (foreign espionage), Agayants was responsible for the vast Soviet network that was recently the subject of an explosive LIFE article by onetime French Agent Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli...