Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POOR COW. TV Director Kenneth Loach's first film tells the story of a scruffy London slum dweller (Carol White) with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never hurts...
...first page of your color spread covering the embassy attack my eating came to an abrupt end. No one, certainly, would applaud your printing of such photos, but maybe such gruesome sights are what we need to be brought back to the grim reality that the news on TV is not just reruns of Combat, where the guy killed this week will return to co-star next...
...tell you how far-reaching are the influences of "the red and white jour nal." I have for several years been conducting research on a glaucoma-like eye enlargement in birds. A TIME article, "Those Tired Children" [Nov. 6, 1964] prompted me to try subjecting chicks to continuous TV. After eight weeks, the birds seemed to be addicted to whatever was showing, and their eyes were markedly abnormal: 20% larger than those of birds reared under continuous incandescent light, and over 30% larger than normal eyes. What this exposure did to the chick's psyche I cannot...
POVERTY Misery of Vortex Bathed in the unforgiving harshness of massed TV lights, Senator Robert F. Kennedy pounded a table to still the chatter of shabby, tieless white folk crowded into the one-room schoolhouse at Vortex, Ky. The New Yorker, lowest-ranking Democrat on the Senate's Labor and Public Welfare Committee, had come to assess the plight of once proud Appalachian mountaineers who rank today among the poorest of America's poor...
...exposure came only after an inquisitive gambling-syndicate man from New York hired a private detective to learn how the young big spender was bankrolling his betting. Reporter Dick Carlson of San Francisco's KGO-TV got wind of the quiz, did some probing on his own account, and became convinced it was a matter for the state Attorney General's office. Within hours after examining the agency's books, the hawkeyes latched onto the ABAG leakage, but by then it was already too late. Truax had fled, and ABAG, which had held such glowing promise...