Word: putting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grateful but not completely satisfied by the size of his victory, Ben-Gurion hopes to coalesce with two small center parties so that he can have an absolute majority to put through an electoral reform his heart is set upon. He would like to abolish proportional representation in favor of a U.S.-type system in which deputies would be elected from individual constituencies. The result, Ben-Gurion believes, would be to cut down the number of parties, and permit a more stable system of governing what he complains is a "nation of Prime Ministers...
...B.B.G. will soon put up for grabs licenses for new private TV stations in the major Canadian cities, which at present have only one station each (some privately and some governmentally owned, but all affiliated with the government network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.). Under its proposed code, the new stations-as well as the old-would be required to provide 55% Canadian programing, stay off the air until noon, reserve two hours of prime evening time for programs of which the governors approve. Private broadcasters see this code as deadly to profits, arguing that 55% Canadian programs would necessarily...
...eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (more than three floors), the Methodist Church (three floors), the Reformed Church in America, and the American Baptist Convention (one floor each). The Protestant Episcopal Church is planning to put up its own office building elsewhere in the city...
...University Park, Pa., unbeaten Penn State put up a spectacular fight against unbeaten Syracuse, kept itself in the ball game by blocking and recovering a punt on the Syracuse 1. And Halfback Roger Kochman returned a kickoff 100 yds. up the middle to score. But Syracuse's power ultimately prevailed, produced a narrow 20-18 victory...
Never before had television's "image" (as Madison Avenue likes to put it) been so tarnished in the public mind. It was plain from the hearings on the quiz fixes (see below) that the scandal had not been isolated; both NBC and CBS, all quiz shows in general, and hundreds of individuals were deeply involved. A more disturbing note on U.S. morals, 1959: of 150 quiz witnesses who appeared before the New York County grand jury and swore before God (or on their affirmations) to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no less than...