Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Westin went, all right, but not for broke. Come March, he announced, he will leave PBL to take over as executive producer of ABC's nightly Frank Reynolds news show. Westin's new job will probably pay him between $50,000 and $60,000 a year (about what he earned at PBL). The imminent departure reinforced industry rumors that PBL will soon be going too. The Ford Foundation's TV consultant, Fred Friendly, would say only that "no decision has been reached at this time...
...those days, Americans had home towns. A boy was born in his father's house in Charlottesville, Va., or Ambler, Pa., or Scott City, Kans.; and that's where he grew up. He wore short pants until he was twelve, then went downtown on the streetcar with his mother to get his first pair of knickers. Automobiles were still symbols of success; a dad with an Apperson 8 or a Pierce-Arrow or a Hupmobile was forgiven if he showed off a bit by taking the family for a Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents...
Benny the Bum. Myths endure, but their purveyors do not. Last week, after a century and a half of continuous publication, the Post came to an end. Readership had remained high in recent years, but costs rose higher and advertising revenues went down. Largely because of the Post's problems, the parent Curtis Publishing Co. had lost $62 million since 1961. The Post figured to cut its deficit from $5,000,000 last year to $3,000,000 in 1969, but hopes of regaining advertisers remained dim. The Curtis board of directors, bowing to the inevitable, gathered...
Shortly after the encyclical was published last July, the Dutch hierarchy issued a pastoral letter of commentary that praised its idealism but reaffirmed the responsibility of the individual conscience, in birth control as in other matters. The council's statement went considerably farther, rejecting the Pope's ban on contraception and declaring that "discussions about the way marriage is lived have not been closed...
...Thus went one of the nightly prayer meetings of a new and fast-growing U.S. religious cult, the American version of Japan's Soka Gakkai, or "Value Creation Society." An odd blend of militant Buddhism, the power of positive thinking and showbiz uplift, Soka Gakkai in the U.S. has grown from some 30,000 members in 1965 to more than 170,000 today. The sect, which is known in the U.S. as Nichiren Shoshu of America (The True Church of Nichiren), claims to be gaining at least 2,000 converts a month. In the New York general chapter alone...