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...Wasteland. The actions of the small Nielsen sample are extrapolated to determine the habits of the entire tele viewing and radio-listening population. How risky is this? Committee Investigators Robert E. L. Richardson and Rex Sparger had some jolting examples: - In Texarkana, Ark., a woman "didn't like what Jack Paar said on his show . . . concerning the recent Meredith situation in Mississippi, so she turns him off every time he comes on, even though she likes the show." Since each Audimeter represents some 50,000 TV homes in the Nielsen projections, she cost Paar 50,000 "listeners" just...
Hargis (g as in give) came from a strongly religious family. His father, a dollar-a-day truck driver during the Depression, was an elder in Texarkana's Rose Hill Christian Church. Hargis recalls that "the first promise I made was to read the Bible all the way through every year. But I haven't had time recently to continue it." After graduating from high school, Hargis got a job in a defense plant, earned enough money in six months to quit and enter the Ozark Bible College at Bentonville, Ark., in 1943. "I stayed a year...
Connally, traveling in a train, rolled across the 863 miles from Texarkana to El Paso, insisting at nearly every stop that Yarborough was the candidate of the Americans for Democratic Action. In Texas, that is about as damaging as calling him a Communist. Some Connally supporters did, in fact, place an ad that posed this choice: "Connally Go Ahead Versus C.I.O. Red." Neither did Connally's backers discourage the notion that Don Yarborough is kin to Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, who has been linked to Billie Sol Estes. (Don and Ralph are not related...
...bomb jitters. As the book opens, it is early in the 32nd century A.D. Thermonuclear warfare has made the North American continent a human and cultural desert. Misshapen biological monsters and primitive nomadic tribes roam the land, while a few neofeudal barons control certain territories-for instance, "Texarkana." The only oases of learning in this new Dark Age are the monastic orders of the Roman Catholic Church, which has miraculously survived the holocaust of the "Flame Deluge," albeit with a "New Rome." The desert monastery around which this book revolves is Leibowitz Abbey...
Please accept my fervid thanks for the service you render this reader when you give the pronunciation of names in the news such as Siobhan McKenna [TIME, Feb. 9]. LULINE* FORTUNE WILLIS Texarkana...