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...Pillbox. Elected RCA's board chairman in 1947, Sarnoff weathered the roughest of electrical storms in 1950 when the FCC licensed the CBS color television system nationally, turned thumbs down on RCA's. Sarnoff retreated to the labs. Within a year, his scientists had worked out a system that virtually elbowed CBS out of the picture...
...American Way." The roughest of the Pearson-Anderson series came in March and April, when the columnists accused Dodd of diverting to his personal use more than $100,000 raised at testimonial dinners in 1961 and 1963, at which then Vice President Lyndon Johnson was the guest of honor. Later, it developed there was a third dinner last year featuring Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Under persistent badgering from the press, the IRS said that such income was tax-free-even if not spent on legitimate campaign purposes -provided that the donors intended the money as personal presents rather than campaign...
...going will not be so easy. Well-rested and strengthened by pulse-feeling back home, the Congress returns to Washington far less docile and far more doubtful than when it left. Some legislators believe, in fact, that the 89th's second session could become one of the roughest in recent history...
Harold Smith Prince, 37, has struck his bonanza in one of the roughest, toughest, least tractable businesses: the Broadway theater. A combination businessman-showman, he has produced or co-produced ten hit musicals- including Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello! and Fiddler On The Roof -that have earned $5,300,000 and brought him a personal worth of just over $1,000,000. Hal Prince has precisely the right balance of creativity, charm and salesmanship that makes a successful producer. "It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class," he says...
Cheap at the Price. Leading the way was François Mitterrand, long De Gaulle's roughest parliamentary critic and so far his chief opposition in the race, who has the joint backing of the Socialist and Communist parties. Mitterrand bore down heavily on "social injustice" in France, sneered that "De Gaulle poses problems which concerned our fathers. I am trying to pose problems which will concern our sons." The candidate on the right, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, spoke feelingly on the subject that still rankles and moves many a Frenchman - the Gaullist betrayal of the Algerian French...