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...held that any station endorsing or opposing a political candidate must allow the other candidates to reply. In suits brought by CBS, NBC and the Radio Television News Directors Association, the court ruled both requirements unconstitutional as a violation of free speech and press guarantees-though it did not knock down the fairness doctrine itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Administrative Law: Static in Broadcasting | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...variety hour for NBC titled The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. The format includes a twist: in one segment each week, she will interview a celebrity. But the real get-the-guest free-for-all should be ABC's Don Rickles Show. Rickles, the insult comic, will knock off a guest or two per weekly half-hour. ABC will also try TV's first weekly book musical, That's Life. For continuity, the one-hour show will have a regular star, Robert Morse, and a continuing theme, modern marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Here Come the Merry Widows | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...strikes do not, of course, prevent infiltration as it is. At best, some generals claim, bombing can knock out only 10% of sighted infiltration. But even that is valuable enough to the men charged with the conduct of the war and responsible for the lives of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Assessing the Bombing | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...only 18. Her youthfulness has hardly been a handicap. From 76,000 pairs in 1960, Ferragamo has increased its annual production to 130,000 pairs, of which 70% are sold abroad. By far the biggest market is the U.S., where fashion-conscious women spend $22 for simple suede knock abouts, $65 for embroidered pumps and up to $175 for alligator styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Cobbler Queen of Florence | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...shrewdly refusing to give credit. A typical lesson deals with the display of merchandise in shop windows: "One of these cakes has flies on it. The other cake is safe under glass. Which would you buy, A or B?" There are even a few words on how to knock the competition. If other shopkeepers find that Mr. Shida is selling potatoes at a lower price, Kenya's budding businessmen are advised, they can simply explain that "the potatoes have been in Mr. Shida's shop for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: From White to Black | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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