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Snatching the power of selection from the viewers, the Nixon plan places it squarely in the lap of an unspecified Federal official who will use ambiguous criteria to extort platitudes and placebos from the national media. Local stations would have to pass muster or fold; even the station managers who agree with Whitehead's philosophy would pressure the networks to share the responsibility for modifying programming in 'line with the President's standards. Through this indirect, but potent mechanism, the press freedom of natural networks would be hedged in by Federal intimidation and fenced in by Federal penalty...
...same amount. With equal fatality, the new plays of the year came and, for the most part, went. Average losses: $200,000. Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business, which closed last week after 40 performances, was the sixth play of the season to fold...
...with the setting sun and must be fought again the very next day. Man and his toil-Sisyphus agonistes. Men put up a tent for a wedding party and then take it down. That is all that happens, and it is like watching an entire life unfold and then fold...
...given lower ratings than whites for the same level of performance. As Harvey Peters, a black member of the Constellation's human relations council, explains: "A man can work twelve or 16 hours at work that is menial. For example, in the laundry, he may press and fold clothes for the officers. They get their clothes on time and there are no complaints. Yet the man gets a low rating...
Makers of costlier premium California wines praise the Gallos for bringing new wine drinkers to the fold with their inexpensive wines, even though many drinkers damn the pop wines as an insult to cultivated taste. "Ernest Gallo has done more for the industry than any individual alive," says Joe Heitz, whose small winery turns out some of the state's most sophisticated wines. Though Gallo wines have long been something of a joke among wine snobs, lately oenophiles have been pleasantly surprised. Gallo's Pink Chablis recently triumphed over ten costlier competitors in a blind tasting among...