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...Including Law Professor Michael Severn, Critic Lionel Trilling, Philosopher Ernest Nagel, Sociologist Daniel Bell, Nobel Physicist Polykarp Kusch, Economist Eli Ginzberg, Historians William Leuchtenburg and Walter P. Metzger, Political Scientists Alexander Dallin and Alan F. Westin...
...fact they are--and take a political position in favor of our six demands, including amnesty. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee has recognized, as we have recognized, the fruitlessness of negotiations under the present circumstances. They independently broke off negotiations with us after last night's session. Professor Westin, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, told us that the committee would now attempt to put forth an independent proposal for the solution of the crisis, rather than continue in its mediating capacity. We welcome this move on the part of the Ad Hoc Committee as recognition of the fact that...
Arriving at Manhattan's NBC news studios, leased for the premiere of the Public Broadcast Laboratory (TIME, Nov. 10), Executive Director Av Westin last week found a note left by the regular occupants. "The moneymen of Huntley-Brinkley," the message read, "hope you do-gooders do good. Good luck!" PBL will need some luck; it didn't do so good...
...purpose of PBL, says Executive Director Av Westin, is "to stir things up, to challenge the status quo of both commercial and educational television...
...Westin had his stir even before the first program went on the air, chiefly be cause PBL had not yet resolved its most fundamental internal problem: point of view. If PBL hopes to provide an alternative to much of the pap that fills the commercial channels, it will have to be provocative. But the concern of some of PBL's advisers was that PBL's programming might confuse sensationalism, or at least irresponsibility, with healthy iconoclasm...