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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, like everyone else, has been castigating the television quiz shows for being fixed but it does not appear as if any of the accusers have paused long enough to examine the real substance of the situation which they are viewing with alarm. After all, what the programs basically purported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Personally to personally, I had a good time on it; I had a week or more of engineers and such running about the house wiring this and that, including trees, and I am indebted to Mr. Murrow. I live alone; I was not surrounded by friends and family; there was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

The great strike between the forces of management and labor of the steel industry is more than a present threat to the welfare of the U.S. It is a vivid symbol of what America has come to treasure most and fight for the hardest: material security and monetary wealth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Policy on the Move. Concern with "softness" goes deeper. Said the Rev. Homer McEwen, Negro pastor of Atlanta's First Congregational Church: "We have lost our traditional thrust toward a moral society." Watching the modern morality play unfold in Washington, a Bostonian remarked: "The awful thing about the quiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Issue of Purpose | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

No consensus emerged from stirrings of opinion, no pat judgment that the U.S. is "soft." The U.S. knew that, save in wartime or other great crises (the Depression), national purpose cannot always be precisely denned. The President's announced trip to South Asia (see The Presidency) was in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Issue of Purpose | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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