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Back to Back. This time the networks cried foul. And the Republicans cried chicken. CBS Chief Frank Stanton called it a "disturbing step backward in the progressive effort toward a better-informed public." NBC's Robert Sarnoff invited Johnson and Goldwater to appear back to back, or even face to face, on Meet the Press, which is exempt from the equal-time provision since it is a regularly scheduled interview show. Goldwater accepted. At week's end Johnson had yet to reply...
...appreciate a Hugo Gernsback idea, one must first know something about Hugo. He is 79. He is a member of the American Physical Society and a friend of people like David Sarnoff and Lewis Strauss. He coined the word television. He thought of radar roughly six months before bats did. From weightlessness to squeeze-package food, he described the problems of space travel as early as 1929. Every Christmas he puts out a pamphlet called Forecast, and in it he has not only predicted some inventions that have already come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook...
After a two-year study of 250 major option plans, Economist John A. Menge of Dartmouth College found that during the 1950s former American Motors Chairman George Romney realized an after-tax profit of $564,000 on sales of his optioned shares, and RCA Chairman David Sarnoff pocketed $1,126,000 from his options. In the 1950s, according to Menge, these were some of the paper profits of executives who held on to most of their options: former Coca-Cola Chairman W. E. Robinson, $1,270,000; Clifford Hood, former president of U.S. Steel, $1,362,000; former General Electric...
...tobacco products, particularly the cigars that it procures on its own. In its public humidor rooms, where temperature is carefully kept at 65° and humidity at 73%, the walls are lined with cedar lockers blazoning the names of connoisseurs who keep large private stocks: Milton Berle, David Sarnoff, Laurance Rockefeller, the Duke of Windsor. Some customers store up to 10,000 cigars at a time so as not to run low on Dunhill's most expensive cigars, the eight-inch $1 brands that are made from 45% Havana leaf and 55% Cuban seed tobacco grown in Connecticut. Though...
...Poor Sanctuary." Most of the conferees could not even define stress. But Physiologist Stanley J. Sarnoff of the National Institutes of Health supplied a paradoxical definition: "Stress is the process of living. The process of living is the process of reacting to stress." Key points by other speakers in sup port of this view: ∙ PHYSICAL STRESS, no matter how se vere, cannot harm the heart unless it is already seriously diseased or has an in adequate blood supply, said Cardiologist Paul Dudley White. The same goes for arteries, veins and capillaries. Further more, the heart and blood vessels...