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...family viewing hour"-the sanitized period between 8 and 9 p.m. in which programming is supposed to be free of sex and violence. To meet family-hour standards, CBS had to move popular shows like All in the Family into later time slots, where their ratings dropped; some newer shows (Doc, Switch, Spencer's Pilots) are mired in the bottom...
...total-the nation's 1,618 independent companies control the rest: 26.8 million phones in all states except Delaware and Rhode Island. Together, AT&T and the independents make up the U.S. "telephone establishment." In recent years the courts and the Federal Communications Commission have allowed newer competitors into a field that Ma Bell and friends would love to call their...
Hearings Begin. This week the boldest move yet to eliminate some major sources of competition for AT&T and the independents will surface in Congress. Exploratory House hearings will begin on a bill that would effectively abolish newer forms of communications competition. Officially, the bill is called the Consumer Communications Reform Act. But because it seems so heavily weighted in favor of the telephone establishment, critics refer to it as the "Bell Bill" or, worse, the "Monopoly Protection...
...these newer attempts is the Radcliffe Seminars Program, a collection of courses designed to provide a "second chance," Nancy Downey, administrative director of the program, says. Created for students who have never completed their undergraduate education, have received their bachelor's degree but have found a new direction they want to pursue, or have married but are seeking a career, the program was established in 1950 after the privileges of older women in the Radcliffe community were curtailed by the merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe classes after World...
...search for Carter advisors, Schwartz says, culminated in "tapping the newer people--identifying the women and the young thinkers and bringing them...