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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harried commission has made no decision. It will probably make none for many months, and any decision it does make is sure to rouse cries of anguish. If it gives color-telecast permission to CBS, the only outfit with a color system that works well at present, it will offend the manufacturers of black & white sets and their dealers, who are prospering on the status quo, and who fear that any promise of color will make the public stop buying. It will offend many TV station owners, most of whom, now living on hope and money transfusions, dread the greater...
...background is a dream-invention: a single picture tube that glows in all colors simultaneously, but which will be "compatible" with the present-day black & white system. There have been many attempts to build such a tube, but none has succeeded so far. Many experts believe that color television should be postponed until such a tube, or something equally good, has been developed. To adopt either the CBS or the RCA system in the meantime, they argue, would be to freeze color television at a low level...
Though the present student body is almost entirely Jewish, Sachar asks no questions about creed, welcomes students strictly on their merits. It is a university with a mission-"Not just another little school," says Sachar, "but a symbol of what the Jewish people want to contribute in the intellectual world...
...Religious Stigma." New Jersey's Attorney General Theodore D. Parsons moved for dismissal on the grounds that no proof had been offered that Gloria had suffered "any harm or damages from the reading of the verses"-especially since the law did not require that schoolchildren be present when the Bible is read. But Lawyer Zimel used the argument of Vashti McCollum in the Champaign case: he insisted that a pupil's absence during the reading inflicts upon him "a religious stigma and sets him apart from his fellows...
...case, the U.S. could not go on with its present policies without running into serious trouble. "We are so prosperous and rich that we can violate the rules for a time "and get away with it," warned W. Randolph Burgess, executive committee chairman of Manhattan's National City Bank. "But economic laws have a way of working out, and eventually we will have to pay the penalty." For the Government's deficit spending, U.S. citizens may have to start paying the penalty in higher prices in short order. Warned he: the U.S. may be in for another round...