Word: sponsors
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Trouble from the South. The act is under the sharpest attack from the protectionists since World War II. Last week 18 Senators joined to co-sponsor a bill, dropped in the hopper by New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges, that would oblige the President to accept every tariff-boosting recommendation put forward by the U.S. Tariff Commission. (Presidents Truman and Eisenhower rejected nearly two-thirds of the commission's proposed tariff increases.) Alarmed, New York's Republican Jacob Javits prepared a counterattack urging the Administration to take the initiative in fighting to uphold reciprocal trade...
...themselves, with no third party intervening or insurance company overriding, is shown by a bold experiment that has been running for 23 years in Oregon. This is an attempt to combine solo practice (which many A.M.A. members still prefer), fee for service, free choice of physician and full prepayment. Sponsor of the plan is the Physicians' Association of Clackamas County (pop. 113,000), adjoining Portland. Every physician practicing in the county is eligible to join, and all have done so. Every resident is eligible, at $7.50 a month, to receive whatever medical and surgical services he needs. He chooses...
...Nashville, the country-music capital, decided in 1948 to form their own band, were soon the most popular dispensers of bluegrass in the business. They now make nearly $100,000 a year apiece. Their fees are among the highest on the country circuit, but thanks to their sponsor, fans can sometimes get in to hear them at half price: they need only present an opened sack of the sponsor's corn...
Worthington Miner, who has had a hand in producing such TV milestones as Studio One and Play of the Week, told the committee that sponsors often insist on contracts specifying a minimum number of killings or shootings per program. He also went out of his way to serve as a sort of one-man Berlitz course in Madavenue lingo. Example: "longterm recall" is something vital that admen ascribe to viewers who remember a given show for more than, say, ten minutes. But Miner's outstanding contribution was one of those sponsor-interference anecdotes that spring from...
...Summer School will sponsor for the first time, this year, the Brattle Street Forum, a weekly series of discussions open to students and televised later in the week on WGBH, Channel...