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Even under normal circumstances, French TV is hardly much livelier than the test pattern. Save for an occasional penetrating documentary or a good movie, programming is a dusty grind of westerns, inane quiz shows, and U.S. imports, such as Les Incorruptibles (The Untouchables) and Mission: Impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Abroad: Mike Fright | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

MOST testmakers conceded that their own cultural backgrounds impose a distinct bias on their questions. Arguing that all U.S. employment and IQ tests reflect the culture of white, middle-class America, Negro Sociologist Adrian Dove, 33, a program analyst for the U.S. Budget Bureau, devised his own quiz. Wryly known as the "Soul Folk Chitlings Test," it is cast with a black, rather than a white, bias. Some of his 30 black imponderables prove extremely difficult for Whitey: 1) Whom did "Stagger Lee" kill (in the famous blues legend)? a) His mother, b) Frankie, c) Johnny, d) His girl friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: BLACK QUESTIONS FOR WHITEY | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...pageants that parade across the screen this time of the year. There again was the line of dimpled sweet young things, gowns aglitter with sequins, hair piled high and smiles frozen in place from hours of practice before the mirror. There was the usual Congeniality Award and the inevitable quiz to test "poise, conciseness, speech and intelligence" (Host Mike Douglas: "Suzanne, what do you think of the way TV covers the news?" Suzanne: "I think it's fabulous"). And finally, of course, there was the big-moment-all-America-is-waiting-for when, amid squeals and swoons, the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Heyday of the Girlie Galas | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The fourth of this season's concerts is a "Quiz-Concert," in which Conductor Leonard Bernstein asks the audience (and the viewer who is invited to participate at home): "How Musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: May 24, 1968 | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

EUGENE McCarthy's tart, tough campaign style got national exposure during a memorable television interview following Robert Kennedy's announcement. CBS Correspondent David Schoumacher conducted the quiz in the Green Bay, Wis., studio of WBAY. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TART, TOUGH & TELEGENIC | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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