Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of a weekly series on Roosevelt's presidential career. Charlton Heston speaks the President's words, and Arthur Kennedy is narrator...
...TIME, which usually remembers what the others forget, did not mention that we have long had a treaty with Nicaragua for a canal route across that country [Dec. 25]. There was considerable controversy about whether to build in Panama or Nicaragua, and Teddy Roosevelt, I think, settled it by acquiring both routes, holding Nicaragua in reserve for possible future use. Am I right...
...show is only a few minutes old when a wonderful snapshot appears briefly on the screen - of a 1907 car broken down under a canopy of sycamores somewhere on a road in Europe, with 25-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt grubbing in the dust beside it, fixing a flat. The shot is characteristic of the best moments in a new, 27-part ABC series called F.D.R., which promises to be about as complete a review of the President's life as television has yet provided. Using family albums and home movies made by his daughter, Anna Halsted, fully...
...people, education. The program deserves praise just because it exists. With that understood, it must be reported that the producers have unfortunately glossed their good material with a veneer of embarrassingly bad taste. The first and worst offense is the voice of Charlton Heston, who speaks for the President. Roosevelt's own recorded voice will be used wherever possible, but in the interim Heston's St. Grotlesex mimicry is offensive, especially when heard beside the true voice of Mrs. Roosevelt, who recorded her own lines for the series before she died...
From the National Industrial Conference Board came a prediction that U.S. business in 1965 will have a better year than in 1964-but that the economy will have to work harder to overcome more obstacles to reach that level. After all, as Teddy Roosevelt saw it, prosperity draws its strength from "business energy and enterprise, from hard unsparing effort...