Word: roberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. In a collection of clever, surreal, and sometimes repellent short stories, the author of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, plays a literary shell game with his readers...
...Kelley. Associate Editor Lance Morrow and Researcher Michele Stephenson analyzed the Agnew speech itself, while Senior Editor Peter Martin and Associate Editor Richard Burgheim, usually in charge of the Television section, viewed the media in the light of the message. They were assisted by Contributing Editors William Doerner and Robert Hummerstone and Researchers Patricia Gordon. Gillian McManus and Georgia Harbison...
...been previously revoked. In effect, the Pastore bill would grant owners a permanent license. Commissioner Johnson called the legislation "the final takeover by broadcasters," and warned that it meant further emasculation of the FCC. Nixon's appointment of Dean Burch (see box) and a Kansas broadcaster named Robert Wells to the FCC has been interpreted as a pro-industry move. On the face of it, Agnew has rallied the nation's citizens against shabby television practices. But unless Agnew and his boss give equal time and attention to the defeat of the Pastore bill, the gesture will prove...
...bombings case came last month when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police asked the FBI to put Melville under surveillance. He was suspected of having a part in several Canadian political bombings. Next the FBI infiltrated Melville's New York organization with a "reliable" informant who, said U.S. Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, "places the defendants at the very heart of the conspiracy...
...growing concern over DDT last week prompted the U.S. to follow the lead of the states (Michigan and Arizona) and foreign countries (Canada and Sweden) that have already decided to curb use of the chemical. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch announced that over the next two years the Federal Government will phase out all except "essential" uses...