Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most cities east of the Mississippi that are old enough to have run-down slums, doctors have long thought they had correctly estimated the annual incidence of lead poisoning in children. New York City has had an average of about 600 cases a year reported for the past decade. Baltimore has averaged 25, Cleveland 50, Chicago 155. But at a conference held last week at Manhattan's Rockefeller University, researchers suggested that these figures are gross underestimates. New York City may have as many as 30,000 cases, and the total for the U.S. may run as high...
...proposal is largely the result of a long campaign by Rhode Island Senator John O. Pastore, for the past 14 years chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications. Like many other Americans, Pastore is troubled by what he takes to be egregious sex, "blatant cruelty and obscene sadism" on the tube. Among other things, he has criticized suggestive commercials (Noxzema's "Take It All Off" ad) and overly permissive programs (ABC's short-lived Turn On). After five days of Senate hearings, Pastore renewed a standing appeal for rigid, centralized self-censorship. But this time he told the broadcasters...
Delicate Dance. In the past, television's usually toothless Code Review Board, composed of station and network executives, has concerned itself with little more than after-the-fact monitoring of occasional programs and commercials. Television can only be cleaned up, Pastore said, if the N.A.B. agrees to give the Code Authority real power-specifically to prescreen all network programs. Under Pastore's projected plan, Code Authority members could simply order deletions of "offensive" material from network programs before they went...
...clock struck slowly half-past-noon...
...home in Mexico City's lavish Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Folklorico draws capacity audiences that manifest lively interest in their country's cultural past. On its worldwide tours, the company serves as a colorful reminder of the surprising glories that can stem from artistic and cultural impurity...