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...Silverman, 41, NBC's $1 million-a-year president, will have had ample opportunity to work his programming magic, if he has any left. For Silverman, who made his reputation at CBS and ABC, the task is formidable. Past NBC programmers failed to foresee the impact that the post-World War II baby boom would have on the industry. When the network belatedly went after the youth market in 1974, it managed to alienate a goodly portion of its once loyal older audience. Subsequent programming regimes sacrificed long-term ratings stability to score quick fixes with movies, miniseries...
...just do not see, substantively, where we would have or should have done much differently," one of his closest aides said last week. "But obviously, we should be saying it differently." Concludes a Washington foreign policy analyst: "The whole post-World War ΙΙ era is crumbling. The international rules are such that any small country, or even any band of terrorists, can do more or less what it wants, and given the decline in the ability of the great powers to intervene, there is really nothing that we or anybody else can do about...
...strong enough. The U.S. stock market tumbled into a deepening nosedive that carried the Dow industrials down 105 points in the twelve trading days before last Wednesday. Gold shot up $17 an oz., to $243, in five days. The dollar sank and sank, in five days establishing four successive post-World War II lows against the Japanese yen. To Washington's alarm, the dollar fell not only against the strong German, Swiss and Japanese currencies but also against some of the world's weakest moneys?the Italian lira, the Spanish peseta, even the Canadian dollar, which earlier had fallen further...
...entails ? as it almost surely must ? abrogation of the defense treaty with Taiwan. Just before the Congress recessed in mid-October, Barry Goldwater of Arizona introduced a resolution that would require the Administration to get the advice and consent of the Senate before it could abrogate any post-World War II mutual defense treaty. Goldwater maintains that since ratification of the 1955 treaty required approval by two-thirds of the Senate, abrogation would require the same ma jority. If Carter seeks to act without consulting Congress, Goldwater told TIME, "I strongly feel I would introduce a bill...
...England in the early 1700s), has been farming since Pat's great-grandfather moved to Minnesota from Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War. During the Depression the homestead shrank from 1,000 acres to 400 and father Edwin had to hunt partridges to help feed the family. But post-World War II prosperity enabled Edwin to buy another 300 acres when Pat began farming with...