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...could point to Soviet industry and science riding a high curve of technological advance. Abroad, he could point to steady Communist erosion of the West's position from Laos to the U.N. By sending 28 divisions on far-flung battle exercises through Eastern Europe this week, Khrushchev would impress many delegates, even if he did not succeed in intimidating the West. Soviet experts predicted that he would cap the Congress with a spectacular space feat or a vast nuclear explosion...
Horses & Crime. The oat still thrives. CBS's Marshal Dillon (James Arness) now has one solid hour to thicken the air with Gunsmoke; and the imitable Paladin, clearly out to impress the FCC's rootin' tootin' Newton Minow, was reading a Dostoevsky novel during an episode of this year's Have Gun, Will Travel...
...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...
...President has only shown that he and his advisers write excellent speeches that impress everyone except the Commies, because when the chips were down in Laos and Cuba, exactly nothing happened...
...moral was obvious, but Good Housekeeping could not resist a dig at McCall's campaign to boost its circulation to 8,000,000 by December and the Journal's race to keep up: "When a toad puffs to impress, she pays the penalty. When a magazine puffs to impress, it's the advertiser who pays." That moral was guaranteed by Good Housekeeping to make the battle of the slick-paper ladies even more frantic...