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...local civil rights groups demanded an audience with the mayor last summer after a supposed slight by the chief of police, Locher refused. The result: a three-day sit-in at City Hall in which four Negroes were arrested for trespassing. Running as an independent, Stokes came within a whisker (2,458 out of a total 236,977 votes cast) of beating Locher.* As it turned out, he polled 36% of the vote, which is almost exactly Cleveland's Negro-to-white voter ratio...
What difference had a year made? NBC, among major advantages, still boasts No. 1 Bonanza, twice as much color programing, and 15 attention-attracting new shows, including Get Smart! (TIME, Oct. 15). CBS, ahead by a whisker last season, is still in the running. It has six of Nielsen's first ten shows and the two most popular new ones to date, fifth-place Hogan's Heroes and No. 8, Green Acres. CBS, further more, is striking fastest in cutting its losses: Slavery's People (92nd of 98 in the ratings) will die in November, Rawhide (84th...
Last November the three networks criss-crunched into a near dead heat in the Nielsen ratings. CBS and NBC scored an identical 19.4% (of TV homes with their sets tuned in during an average minute), and ABC was only a whisker off the pace with a 19.3%. Everyone went crazy. CBS-TV was slipping, and the slip eventually led to the fall of its king, James Aubrey. On the other hand, it also meant that perennially third ABC was on the rise, and so over there, there was much patting of backs. No one thought much about NBC. Except, apparently...
...first time in the history of TV's Nielsen ratings, the three major networks last week ended up in as close a thing to a photofinish as statistics are likely to produce: a dead heat between CBS and NBC, each scoring an identical 19.4%* and, only a whisker behind long-lagging ABC with...
...minute mark of the over-time session, Harvard came within a whisker of beating the team which many feel is the best in the East. Crimson wing Kenny Burnes' shot from center ice carromed high into the air off the Terrier defense and fell at the feet of B.U. goalie Jack Ferreria...