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...LEROY STANTON Minister...
...fought boldly for the right to editorialize -and timidly let it go virtually unused. Last week, for the second time in network history,* CBS exercised its right. In an editorial prepared by the network's little-known editorial board-headed by Chairman William S. Paley and President Frank Stanton-Washington Newsman Howard K. Smith charged that Americans are "overcomplacent, overaddicted to comfort, and indifferent to good government." He urged changes in the Pentagon to eliminate interservice chauvinism, called for readiness to negotiate for disarmament, warned: "We must be prepared to make sacrifices, to pay higher taxes, to face controls...
Punches. The editorial, which the network had sent out in advance to about 160 affiliates, came as the climax of Where We Stand, a special 90-minute report comparing U.S. and Soviet strength. The show was the idea of President Stanton, and its content took added weight from his role as one of the shapers of the open-secret Gaither Report. To strike the "complete balance sheet" that Stanton ordered, the network news staff labored for three months over documents, interviews and film...
...vote goes to the best Vice President in the history of the U.S. (and probably the next Chief Executive), Richard Nixon. ROGER STANTON Detroit...
...STANTON London...