Word: publics
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Kassem's public utterances, at first so mild, impersonal and idealistic through the bitter slanging match that raged between Iraq and Nasser's United Arab Republic, have suddenly taken on a high emotional tone. To visitors at Baghdad's As-Salaam Hospital, he declared last week that the Iraqi revolution had delayed World War III for several years. ''We were the reason for the rapprochement among the big powers," he boasted...
Fired at 4 a.m. Economist Pazos was fired in a tense, 4 a.m. Cabinet session climaxing months of disagreement. Privately a stern critic from the start of Castro's helter-skelter reforms, Pazos had joined a loose alliance with three other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero, 35, a civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht...
...proposal to get the public to share in the responsibility for TV programing last week highlighted the networks' attitude toward their urgent problems. One night last month Board Chairman Sigurd S. Larmon, of Madison Avenue's topflight Young & Rubicam ad agency, suggested to the major network presidents that a committee of responsible citizens be set up to make recommendations for TV reform. The response of NBC's Robert Sarnoff and CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton were made public last week. NBC took up the adman's idea with enthusiasm, expanded it into an elaborate proposal...
Responsibility for what appears on TV, said NBC, should be properly spread among networks, local TV stations, independent producers, ad agencies, advertisers, and the viewing public. Possible members of a "public policy committee": the president of the American Bar Association, the president of Vassar, an ex-chairman of General Electric, Educator James B. Conant, retired U.S. Judge Learned Hand...
With both CBS and ABC against his plan, Adman Larmon conceded that it had little chance of success. NBC bought a full-page ad in eleven U.S. newspapers to say that the network "assumes complete responsibility to the public for what appears on NBC." But the ad also insisted that "TV wins a daily vote of confidence in 45 million American homes," and rejected "grandiose schemes for television's Utopia." Unfortunately, NBC has so far brought forth no notable schemes, Utopian or otherwise, seems to be spending much of its brainpower working over the pity...