Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the President announces his intention to speak to the citizenry on a matter of national concern, it is the President's audience gathered in front of their TV sets. It is therefore presumption, bordering on arrogance, that network officials feel it is within their province to select certain well-known commentators who will also address the nation immediately after the President's remarks and advise the people that the President is wrong. This is not reporting the news...
...Connecticut, sprang to his feet and hurled his chair through the screen of the television set at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. His birthday-Sept. 14-had come up No. 1 in the national draft lottery. Harvard Senior Nat Spiller, too nervous to watch the drawing on TV, was playing pingpong in an attempt to calm himself. Returning to his room when the selection was well under way, he looked at a list his roommates had been keeping and slumped into a chair. His birthday had come up fourth. Across the country in California, Stanford University Sophomore Tyler Comann...
...membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and tenth in the lottery. He is almost sure to be called, as is Seth Grossman, chairman of the Duke University chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom. "I support the war," he said, "but I like it better on TV." His date came up 14th...
...adults who long ago decided that the only TV drama worth watching was the evening news and the Super Bowl, a boon awaits in a minuscule series of specials called CBS Children's Hour. That's right-children's specials. If J.T., the first offering, is any indication, children and adults alike will be stimulated, moved and entertained by a kind of drama almost never found on commercial television. J.T., which will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 13,* is an original story written by Jane Wagner and beautifully directed by Robert Young. It is, mercifully, different from...
...play beds" started slowly enough. First there were the "come-come" models-twins that shot together at the flick of a button. Soon came the "miracle series," or circular double beds, each installed on a turntable on the floor and surrounded by such inbred in-bed necessities as a TV set, refrigerator, hi-fi and completely stocked bar. Only a handful of fun-loving householders could afford a price range of $1,000-$13,000, of course, but the Western-style hideaway hotels in the countryside snapped up the beddos. Hotel guests were only too delighted to spend...