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...Absent Edges. Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek presented a reasoned argument centered in the idea that the "networks must not go on, in the name of freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network...
...when brisk, jet-borne academic types whisk in and out of Washington, the legendary absent-minded professor is an anachronism. But New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook still conforms to that older, homelier image; he has been known to enter the shower wearing pajamas, and he once absently rejected the Oedipus Complex as a tool of philosophy by exclaiming: "I learned that stuff at my mother's knee...
...climbed aboard, began roughing up the Freedom Riders before cops broke up the brawl. At Birmingham's Trailways Terminal, another mob charged the bus, swinging fists, blackjacks and lengths of pipe. Although the terminal is just two blocks from Birmingham's police headquarters, the cops were conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people, and we never have any trouble here unless some people come into our city looking for trouble." Said Alabama's Governor John Patterson: "I cannot...
...conceived the idea of a conference of all African leaders, with the modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent a majority of independent Africans -some 95 million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo and South Africa were not invited). Originally, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Mali's Mobido Keita accepted. But Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who destroys everything he cannot lead, talked them both...
President Pusey said that attendance at the recent Overseers' meeting was the largest in his memory. Of the 29 members, only Neil H. McElroy '25 and John F. Kennedy '40 were absent...