Word: pbs
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...63rd birthday last week. Aside from the fact that the changing of the guard happened quietly and smoothly, a rare occurrence at any network headquarters, the biggest surprise was the man chosen as Frank's replacement: Lawrence Grossman, 52, president of the Public Broad casting Service (PBS) since...
Some say he also has a lot to contribute to the troubled news network. Grossman won general applause for guiding PBS through several financial crunches, and leaves a strengthened, and solvent, system with twice as many regular viewers (86 million) as it had when he arrived...
...survey of 240 editors and reporters at the commercial networks PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and TIME, Political Scientists Stanley Rothman of Smith College and S. Robert Lichter of George Washington University found that 48% believed that the Government should guarantee jobs, 68% argued that the Government should narrow the income gap between rich and poor, and 88% held that the U.S. legal system favors the wealthy. On social issues, 90% believed that women should have a right to an abortion, and only 25% considered homosexuality morally wrong...
...best known in America as the erudite, stately host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. But in his native country, Alistair Cooke's claim to fame rests largely on his Letter from...
...ignorant hopeful pre-freshman was I. Although raised beyond the pale of college hockey. I learned all about the ECAC, the Beanpot, and Harvard vs. B.U. from PBS broadcasts in the mid-'70s (sadly discontinued). Rereading old accounts of Dave Connors's sudden-death heroics confirmed that the game was, indeed, a Big Deal...