Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust that this oversight was not kaused by any junior staff officer's lack of kourage in kommunicating this to the admiral...
...said quietly: "If you want to offer your resignation, it will be accepted." Doerfer might have got off easier if he had not cruised through hot water with Storer once before. In 1958-long before the rigged quiz and payola investigations-Doerfer told the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he had spent a week in Florida and the Bahamas at Storer's expense, and admitted that he had also accepted at least $1,000 worth of airline tickets, hotel bills, fees for speeches, and the loan of a color TV set, from broadcasters. That time he was forgiven...
...probably an oversight that the name of Joe Liss was omitted from your review of the TV show The Margaret Bourke-White Story [Jan. 11]. But it was a huge oversight: Joe Liss wrote the script. In addition, he served as everybody's Father Confessor-to the cast, the director, to Maggie Bourke-White...
...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 as great as the Special Committee on Legislative Oversight [which dug into the quiz scandals and the payola problem&]." But when a contestant on the now defunct quiz show, Dotto, charged in a letter to the FCC that the show was fixed, the commission merely wrote to CBS, was satisfied with the statement that the matter was being investigated...