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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vote by Channel Selector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AGNEW DEMANDS EQUAL TIME | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...just business; it is show business. Top commentators are in the $200,000-a-year bracket because they draw audiences. Thus, even though Agnew calls them "unelected," TV newscasters and commentators are more elected than any other newsmen in America. Every night the viewer votes with his channel selector; the Nielsen rating company tabulates the results. Just now, CBS's Walter Cronkite is ahead of Huntley-Brinkley 26 million viewers to 21 million. Despite Agnew's presumption that silent-majority viewers would prefer an alternative to CBS-NBC dovishness, viewer-voters leave Frank Reynolds (who publicly questioned last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AGNEW DEMANDS EQUAL TIME | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...public selector of horses must inevitably end the year in the red. There are several reasons for this...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Ah Woe! Picking Horses Is Not An Easy Task | 7/22/1969 | See Source »

...policy into reality is one of the most difficult problems of all, Nixon's mechanical approach may be more promising. Yet efficiency is a means, not an end, and can become meaningless in the absence of a creative policy-and worthy policymakers. Despite his image as a hardheaded selector of talented men, Nixon chose the mediocre Spiro Agnew as running mate to avoid antagonizing Southern Republicans, while Humphrey picked the better-qualified Edmund Muskie. "Agnew is not a racist," said Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, last week. Then, in an extraordinary burst of candor, he added: "I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHAT PRESIDENT | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Seven Decades" survey, as its selector Selz explained it, was to reveal "rebellion and innovation, qualities vital to the life of art." And the rebellion and innovation are far from over. After the galleries closed down about midnight, those of the opening-night travelers with sufficient stamina dashed up Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Museum to catch the tail end of yet another opening. There, 42 young U.S. and British sculptors launched what may be a new art movement. The new trend is all bare pipe and unadorned steel, and it trumpets "less is more" as its philosophical basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Progressive Seebang | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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