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...typical sponsor wants results on a sales chart, and employs rating services which assure him that the viewers are getting his message. "Spectaculars" are one result of this. A light children's tale such as "Pinocchio" is transformed into a tasteless extravaganza punctuated with wisecracks. Another result is to force a comedian such as Sid Caesar, with reasonably esoteric appeal, off the air. Public service programs also suffer. ABC-TV was the only network to cover the recent Senate Labor Investigations; the other two networks had too many commercial commitments to do so. Because there is no ABC station...
Berlin to Baghdad. In their thrusting enthusiasm to take Erhard's advice, West German enterprisers have kept boosting the country's gross national product at an annual rate about twice that of the U.S. (see chart). Unemployment has effectively vanished, workers' real wages today have advanced 60% since 1950. By 1955 steel output reached 2,000,000 tons a month, topping that of the Reich and establishing Germany as Europe's foremost producer and the world's third (after the U.S. and U.S.S.R...
...issues at the same time that-with small talk and small children, dinner-party fiascos and marital spats-it humanizes the atmosphere. What it does not do-what a message play so seldom can do-is to create flesh-and-blood characters who really seem to shape and chart their own lives...
...most interesting out-of-class activities is the distilling of an occasional bottle of "mountain dew," the proof of which he scientifically measures on a chart of specific gravities. Then, by a slightly less scientivc, but equally effective, method he correlates the specific gravity to the proper proof. His own favorite is specific gravity .932 (102 proof), although occasionally a .930-specific-gravity (104 proof) batch will be accepted...
...year earlier. Because of the relentless upcreep in prices, factory workers' average real wages actually shrank by nearly 1% from August 1956 to August 1957 despite an increase of $2 a week in take-home pay. And the U.S. inflation record, measured against the global scale (see chart), was moderate indeed...