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Your July 22 story "Self-Defeat" points up the ability of Nielsen Television Index to provide much more comprehensive measurement of TV audiences than mere "ratings." While it is true that there is some interplay of audience between the Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen programs, our research has shown that tune-outs are not excessive. We checked minute-by-minute viewing against the commercial placement for the night on which the particular study was made, and found no significant changes in levels of viewing at the times the commercials were presented. Therefore, your "sponsor-sobering conclusion, i.e., viewers...
...TIME, May 6). Thus forewarned, McConaughy and other TIME correspondents sleuthed the progress of civil rights from secret conference to secret caucus to be ready and waiting to provide both the behind-the-scenes story and knowing coverage when the story broke into historic debate. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Surprising Defeat, The Rearguard Commander, and Jury Trials & Contempt...
...Truest Type. Dick Russell was able to work his magic-make disciples out of followers and converts out of adversaries and victory out of defeat-not because he is a Southern hero in the Senate but because he is a Senate hero who happens to be from the South. He basks in the tradition, the reticent splendor, the interplay of interests, the quests for compromise of the chamber that have been called a Southern institution. With incomparable style he translates his Southern virtues and personal virtues-courage, courtesy, consistency, consideration for others, hard work, good faith, sense of history-into...
Prime Minister Diefenbaker, 61, is a Saskatchewan lawyer who lost five elections before he finally reached Parliament at the age of 44. An unknown who won leadership of the minority Tory Party last December mostly because his demoralized colleagues thought he could lead the way honorably to inevitable defeat, he instead took the party to victory by an exhausting personal effort. He knows, likes and respects the U.S. But his brow darkens and he grows snappishly critical at even such a small economic friction as last month's unloading of low-priced U.S. turkeys onto the Ontario market. Dulles...
...leadership of his party, losing the second time to George Alexander Drew, who as a powerful premier of Ontario had maintained excellent relations with his party's big-money contributors on Toronto's Bay Street. As starchy George Drew led his party twice to electoral defeat, Diefenbaker built up successively bigger votes for himself...