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...Seventeen Republican senators broke with the Administration to join 38 Democrats in denying confirmation of the President's nominee. Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.) sided with the opposition at the last moment in casting a "nay" vote...
Near Monopoly. One possible factor: Annenberg may have feared trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. His Triangle Publications company owns several television and radio stations, as well as TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, the Morning Telegraph and the Daily Racing Form. Renewal of Triangle's license to operate WFIL-TV in Philadelphia has been opposed by a former Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, Milton Shapp. He claimed last July that Triangle exercised "a near news monopoly in the Philadelphia area," and that under Annenberg's direction, news had been "censored, omitted, twisted, distorted and used for personal vengeance." Triangle...
...something, you have the power to understand it and to dissolve its strength into a variety of solutions ready to receive it. So it goes for the Underground. For the sociologists, it's a "subculture" with all sorts of appendages like new values and relevant commentaries. Hollywood and "Seventeen" magazine parade the "now-generation" and we get scene after slick page of how to be with whatever it is. Evidently, the Underground has made it: shunted off into its own little strata, it is now in the position to be analyzed, ranted against, profited from, scaled with the boundaries between...
...based on contemporary news reports. The Mother and the Law dealt with the oppression of the lowly by the rich and intolerant. Feeling that its theme was bigger than his treatment, Griffith began to expand the film and then became interested in parallel situations set in former societies. Some seventeen months later he had spent two million dollars, hired thousands of extras, and built acres of sets on a film eight hours long. Distributors refused to book a feature that ran for two evenings, and Griffith cut to two-and-a-half hours the film we know as Intolerance...
...Seventeen million Vietnamese are counting on you to end this war." he said...