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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful TV networks will wage the strongest campaign against the pay system. So will their admen and the moviehouse operators, who stand to lose business. They argue that pay TV will drain the free networks of talent, penalize the majority in favor of the minority that would be able to pay for a better show. Cracked CBS President Frank Stanton: "Television could not long remain half free and half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Test for Toll TV | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Voice of Freedom. J. R. D. Tata, who started in the steel company at 18, is the strongest Indian voice raised against efforts to destroy free enterprise. His reports to stockholders warn Indians against being fooled about state control of economic life. Only a handful of men. says he, can be motivated by pure service. The rest must be driven by fear or actuated by hope of gain, as in the United States, which he publicly defends as the ideal of a welfare state that has not sacrificed efficiency or freedom. But Tata is impatient of Americans, feels they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fifty Years of Tata | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Angrily the Indian refuses, but his wife decides to go. She puts the baby in her husband's arms. "Now," she says softly, "you have a cow." The Roots, for seriousness and intensity of feeling, is possibly the strongest motion picture that has been made in Mexico since Luis Buñuel turned out Los Olvidados, and The Cows is clearly the strongest of the film's four episodes. It has the strength of righteous anger, but it has anger's weakness, too. It overstates its case. The Mexican Indian is often poor, but in the villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Roots | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...crowd. "The Constitution of the U.S. gives you the right to carry arms," he said. "If one of these niggers pulls a razor or a gun on us, we'll give it to 'em . . . When they fool with the white race they're fooling with the strongest race in the world, the most bloodthirsty race in the world." Hot-eyed Rabble-rouser John Kasper mentioned the name of one of Nashville's Negro civic leaders and dramatically held up a rope, then talked hazily about dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battle of Nashville | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...fine opportunity came when the moon was scheduled to eclipse the Crab nebula, which is the 4th strongest concentrated source of radio waves in the sky. Watching with a radio telescope, the astronomers noted when the waves from the nebula were cut off by the moon. They reappeared on the other side in about one hour. Calculations showed that the nebula's radio waves had been bent very slightly: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Moon's Atmosphere | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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