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...Rival NBC, which was luckily televising a discussion of "Missiles and Men" by its own correspondents, broke the big story immediately and ABC cut into a speech by Adlai Stevenson to give its viewers the news in a hurry. But the Murrow show has evidently become so sacrosanct a commercial entertainment that CBS kept the news waiting until he got off the air-some ten minutes later...
...venerable Voice's intensely dedicated fans, Monday night is as sacrosanct as Saturday afternoon is to the more serious music lovers who tune to the 26-year-old Metropolitan Opera show. Its audience has been reckoned to be as high as 25% of all TV homes (40 million), with another 50% picking it up "occasionally." If the show veers from its old-fashioned format of 48-piece orchestra and opera singer in a standard, semiclassical repertory, angry letters pour in. Three-and-a-half years ago, when viewers and listeners* heard that after more than 25 years NBC would...
...Government last week turned full face to enter the age of the satellite. It left behind the notions that no speedup was necessary in missile and satellite development, that the administrative organization of the defense establishment was satisfactory, that interservice rivalries were somehow healthy, that the budget remained sacrosanct even while Red moons spun through the sky. Just a few weeks before, President Eisenhower, asked at his press conference if he might name a special White House scientific adviser, replied: "I hadn't thought of that." Last week he not only appointed such an adviser but gave...
...When the $38 billion figure was hit upon, it was not by any manner or means a sacrosanct figure," said the President at his weekly press conference. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy started defense spending on the way up one day last week by restoring $170 million lopped off the current research and development budget by Charlie Wilson; he also authorized the Air Force to lift its emergency ceilings on monthly payments to aircraft companies (see BUSINESS). In view of the higher defense spending, said the President, it would require "serious retardations elsewhere" in the budget to hold the overall...
Nationalist days was the tough, tight-fisted war lord of Yunnan province, took a crack at the most sacrosanct foreign idol of all. Said General Lung, now a vice chairman of Red China's National Defense Council: "It is totally unfair for the People's Republic of China to pay all the expenses of the Korean War. The U.S. has given up her claims for loans she granted to her allies during the first and second world wars, yet the Soviet Union insists that China must pay interest on Soviet loans." He would like to know, Lung added...