Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). There's something to cackle about when a small boy's pet hen lays an egg that hatches out a dinosaur. That is the case in "The Enormous Egg," a TV adaptation of Oliver Butterworth's story...
Even Robert McNamara has an eye on a new New Frontier and, in a statement filmed for TV campaign plugs last week, dropped his normally cool demeanor to give an uncharacteristically effusive appraisal of Bobby's role as a J.F.K. foreign policy adviser, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis. "He remained calm and cool," said the former Defense Secretary, "firm but restrained, never nettled and never rattled, and he demonstrated a most extraordinary combination of energy and courage, compassion and wisdom...
...violent? Primarily youth: the fatherless Negro boy aching to prove his manliness, the school dropout taunted by TV commercials offering what he cannot have and often incited by what he has learned about the Mickey Spillane brand of violence. Adding to the slum kid's anger is all the middle-class hypocrisy about violence. "Good" people utterly delegate society's dirty work to overworked white cops, few of whom are inclined to be Boy Scouts. The middle class denounces violence but wants the police to use it, and is then shocked when hordes of young hooligans respond...
...Telephone (PET), the first wireless, fully portable phone. "It's there when I need it," explains Elkins, who believes that it will come in particularly handy when he is driving rented cars or is on location for movies. "The phone is a serious business weapon for me," adds TV Program Packager Larry Spangler, who carries his briefcase phone everywhere, was glad that he did so recently when he received a long-distance call on an outdoor paddle-tennis court confirming an urgent appointment...
This backhanded slap, coming just a few weeks before the assassination of Martin Luther King, was a sharp reminder of television's great and grave responsibilities in times of national crisis. Thus, when the explosive news event occurred, TV's mood and intent were one: cool...