Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the old-fashioned slugging, Nixon and Humphrey reserved their heaviest efforts for television. Both sides planned a crescendo of commercials and broadcast exposure for the candidates during the last two days before the vote. The expenditure of millions for radio and TV time up to the last possible moment was probably wise tactics. It was the kind of campaign in which many voters withheld a final decision until actually confronted with the ballot...
...campaign corollary to Parkinson's Law might be: Words directed at the electorate multiply in direct proportion to the time and space available on TV and radio and in magazines and newspapers. By any reckoning, the 1968 campaign sets an alltime record for verbiage. Small wonder that with so much talk flooding the ether, the words sometimes get mixed up and Candidate A sounds like his opponent Candidate B, and Candidate C sounds like both. As proof of the theorem, here is a simple test: Match the candidates and their words...
...half-hour opens with Humphrey getting ready to a film a TV-speech, shifting position, worrying out loud whether he would look better behind a podium. Peek behind the scenes and there is a real Humphrey, the opening says, and the apparent frankness of what follows is indeed disarming...
Then- fadeout. Last year sales leveled off in defiance of predictions that a majority of black-and-white owners would switch to more expensive color sets. This year color TV sales are running 30% below expectations. Beyond that, many of Cole's old customers are now supplying more of their own color tube needs...
Like the movies and TV before it, the copying-machine industry has been eager to move from a purely black-and-white technology into color reproduction. It has long been known that such mammoths as Xerox, RCA and Po laroid were entered in the race. Yet last week, in a preview at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, St. Paul-based 3M Co. (formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) was the first to break from the gate. When the gold curtains parted on the stage of the hotel ballroom, 3M proudly revealed two prototypes of a copying machine that can faithfully reproduce...