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With that sort of mind-blowing work load, the FCC, according to its critics, has all but given up and become a popsy of the industry it is supposed to regulate. Its ultimate power, the license revocation, is rarely invoked. And when it proposes an industry rule, the commission invariably backs down before implementation. In 1963, it recommended a regulation codifying the National Association of Broadcasters' own gentleman's agreement of 18 minutes' maximum ad time per hour on radio, and 16 minutes on TV. But as soon as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee began...
...struggled to continue publishing his afternoon paper. It has missed only two days since the strike began. Though its circulation has dropped from 726,000 to 500,000 and it prints two editions instead of six, it continues to reach the streets and subscribers with its usual heavy load of columnists, features and wire-service copy. Ads are running about 60% of normal...
...Ford Motor Co.: "Nothing can be plainer than the fact that these people must be given the chance to earn decent lives for themselves. And bringing them into the mainstream of the economy is a goal that can only be accomplished if business grabs the heavy end of the load...
...Government's part, the President has asked Congress for $350 million to subsidize the extra cost of training the first 100,000 of hard-core unemployed. Still, the load on private enterprise looks hefty enough. Business must not only provide the jobs but devise motivations and teaching methods that can succeed where all the planners and dreamers, schools and churches, labor, and even Government have largely failed...
...class in a brand-new, ten-week Harvard course entitled "The Role of the Law and the Lawyer in the Viet Nam Conflict." It has no exam or grades, offers no credit, and involves a good deal of reading over and above the students' already heavy regular work load. But it has a record enrollment of more than 400-one-quarter of the student body-and is one of the most popular courses in the 150-year history of the school...