Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been temporarily relieved to discover that it was only the rival Harvard Crimson, not an outraged Radcliffe mother, that had started the fuss over the off-color cartoons in the parody issue called Pontoon (TIME, Nov. 13). But by last week Poonsters were finding very little humor in the upshot. After a month of evidence-gathering, Middlesex County District Attorney George E. Thompson went before a grand jury, got an indictment against "Harvard Lampoon, Inc." for "selling and distributing" obscene pamphlets...
...this was the initial upshot of the Federal Communications Commission's decision of October 11 in favor of the CBS system of hearings and closed sessions, the FCC voted to authorize color telecasting under the CBS method starting November 20. Columbia immediately announced it would be ready to begin a "new era of television" with 20 hours of color programs a week...