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...revelation of any man comes through flashes of light." So said CBS President Frank Stanton before a journalism group in 1960 as he analyzed the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates of that year. It is a remark worth recalling as the Ford-Carter debates of 1976 approach. While it has become fashionable to belittle the first televised clash of major presidential candidates, the 1960 debates did illuminate important personal qualities of the two men-more so, in fact, than anyone realized at the time...
...Manhattan. Lazarsfeld got his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Vienna, and when he came to the U.S. in 1933, devoted himself to applying that discipline to sociology, psychology and market research. A pioneer in researching the effects of mass communication, he systematically studied, along with Frank Stanton, later president of CBS, the radio-listening habits of Americans in the '30s and '40s. Modern voter-projection methods grew out of his original studies of election behavior. For 29 years a professor at Columbia, Lazarsfeld was a lively and influential teacher who molded many of today...
Three sites are leading contenders for the VW plant: a former Westinghouse appliance factory in Columbus, Ohio, a federal tank plant in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park and a partially completed Chrysler Corp. assembly plant at New Stanton, Pa. Whichever site Volkswagen chooses, it will soon have company. Now that it is moving into U.S. manufacturing, Japanese car makers are almost certain to follow...
...decided whether to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, most legal observers found little fault with the decision. "It goes along with what is already normally done by doctors in cases where it is determined that additional treatment will have no ameliorative effect," says Attorney Stanton Price, a lecturer at the U.C.L.A. School of Public Health. Columbia Politics Professor Alan Westin, author of Privacy and Freedom, adds: "The court has said that, whether it's abortion or other matters, these difficult and tragic decisions should lodge with the family and not the state...
...Sunday the ubiquitous Stanton Davis and the Ghetto Mysticism Band will play at Tuft's Cohen Auditorium. The $1 show begins...