Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S "Election Extra" in 1964 featured a smiling, victorious Lyndon Baines Johnson in his hour of triumph after amassing the greatest popular vote in U.S. history; that, in awesome contrast to the agonized figure we recently viewed on TV. If ever we need to illustrate an example of America's ingratitude to an elected President (i.e., his achievements in behalf of civil rights, aid to education, the elderly and handicapped, Medicare, urban renewal, social security, conservation, etc.), this should certainly be unparalleled in its savagery...
Only for the Masters each year does Roberts let down the barriers. This week something like 25,000 fans will invade Augusta, trample its fairways and litter its clubhouse lawn; millions more will watch on TV. Only one of the competitors in U.S. golf's most prestigious tournament can win the $20,000, the green coat and the lifetime playing privileges, but all will leave proud that they were even invited to play at Augusta National, the club that three-time Masters Champion Jack Nicklaus calls "a monument to everything great in golf...
...stop their lives and turn on their televison sets. Last week, when President Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection, the network political experts were as flummoxed as the viewers. But four nights later, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated television was in total command. Clearly, TV newscasters are not yet up to snap punditry; but they have mastered the art of reflecting events when dramatic action breaks...
Balanced Footage. Back in Manhattan, secretaries and vice presidents and every newsman in town, including CBSs John Laurence, on home leave from Viet Nam, poured into the network headquarters. As ABC-TV News Veep Bill Sheehan put it,"a lot of union rules went out the window" as staffers fell to without regard for jurisdistional niceties. ABC's three-man orbituary unit hastily updated its canned footage on King, and CBS's Charles Kuralt narrated a 20-minute pretaped orbituary covering King from childhood...
...Irving Thalberg Award passed gracefully into the hands of Alfred Hitchcock, who marched forward to the tune of his TV theme, peered over the podium, and muttered a very British "Thank...