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Titled simply Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Basic Books; $37.50) and prepared under the sponsorship of the two battered cities, it is the work of 34 Japanese doctors, physicists and social scientists. The book uses dry, technical language, with page after page of charts and statistics. Yet it provides the most complete reckoning to date of the damage-physical, medical, social-from atomic attack...
...Procter & Gamble to knuckle under to a campaign of demagoguery, innuendo and selective threat by the Rev. Donald Wildmon's Coalition for Better Television [June 29] is an act of cowardice. As long as they withhold their sponsorship from shows that I prefer, I shall clean myself and my household with homemade soap...
Even so, some of the companies whose names came out did make gestures toward cleaning up their acts. Procter & Gamble, TV's biggest advertiser with $486.3 million invested last year for such products as Pampers and Cheer, revealed that over the past year it had withdrawn its sponsorship from some 50 episodes. SmithKline, which advertises Contac and Dietac, responded to CBTV by expressing its concern in writing to the networks. A few other companies, including Gillette, Phillips Petroleum and Dow Chemical, took the precaution of getting in touch with CBTV. The judgment conveyed to Phillips Petroleum Media Relations Representative...
...first real opportunity for Communist-Socialist cooperation came in 1936 with the Popular Front government of Socialist Léon Blum. The Communists officially refused to take part in the short-lived Front because the Socialists were the dominant force. But the party tacitly supported such Blum reforms as sponsorship of the 40-hour work week and collective bargaining...
About 4,000 of the Cubans, overwhelmingly single and male, remain in federal custody awaiting sponsorship by a U.S. citizen or charitable organization - a difficult prerequisite, since nearly half the refugees are crippled, mentally ill or otherwise problematic. Most of the 4,000 are at Fort Chaffee, Ark., where, out of boredom and frustration, they have rioted twice...