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...president, Oliver Treyz, complained that ABC would display more quality if so many cities were not set up for two channels only, cutting ABC out of markets and profits. Thus Treyz came out strongly for Newton Minow's plan to open up the U.S. television spectrum with new Ultra High Frequency channels...
...with his own hindsight but sets them moving blindly into orbit. Augustine Penry-Herbert is the protagonist. In 1923, he is a young aristocrat, just out of Oxford, who spends his time shooting geese and snipe on the wild marshes of the coast of north Wales. His ancestral house, Newton Llantony, is servantless, its furniture shrouded in dust cloths. He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks and brawlers. "These relics of feudalism," he muses, "such relationships . . . were equally ruinous to the servant and the served." Augustine is enlightened; he belongs...
Students from Wellesley, Simmons, Thfts, Boston College, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, M.I.T., and Harvard will leave Boston by bus on the opening of February 23, will participate in the sit-ins Saturday afternoon, and return Saturday night...
...first week of hearings, the FCC and CBS had tilted with polite amiability. But it was NBC's turn last week, and NBC Chairman Robert Sarnoff bristled from the start. He began by charging that, for all Newton Minow's protestations, what the FCC obviously sought was Government control of network programming. Nettled and irritated, a couple of commissioners broke in to insist that the FCC had never said any such thing. Later, at his press conference, President Kennedy himself reiterated that the FCC had no intention of "changing the basic relationship which already exists...
...Hearings (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Summary of Newton Minow's nibbles at the networks' top executives and their retorts, as developed during the previous week's testimony...