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...broadcasters, including all major networks) owns or subsidizes more than 1,000 music publishers and through them has influence over rising entertainers; 2) broadcasters also have a heavy finger in the record pie through RCA Victor (related to NBC) and Columbia (a CBS subsidiary); 3) wherever possible, the stations plug BMI tunes, ignore ASCAP tunes on the "sinister" premise that (as a BMI pamphlet once put it) "the public selects its favorites from the music which it hears, and does not miss what it does not hear." One method, testified Songwriter Adams, was in the form of memos to radio...
...stuck on top of a 70-foot "hi-reach" camera and was forgotten. Twelve ABC men were wedged between electronic gear in a tiny booth until someone called a locksmith. Larry (Meet the Press) Spivak had to be rushed to a doctor to have a small speaker plug removed from his ear. Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson got hopping mad at CBS for "wrecking" his hotel suite, and no one could stand to look at NBC's five simultaneous pictures for very long...
...line. One was a convention visitor, British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman, who reminded his Canadian counterparts that Britain's Labor Party had already acknowledged the need for both private and public enterprise (TIME, July 23). Said Grossman: "Capitalism is not going to collapse." The other socialist plug for free enterprise came from Saskatchewan's CCF Premier Tommy Douglas, who could speak from experience as the head of the only government ever formed by the CCF. Shortly after taking office in 1944, Douglas launched a number of government-operated industries in the province of Saskatchewan; most of them wound...
GUIDANCE SYSTEMS: Contractors are General Motors' AC Spark Plug Division, American Bosch Arma Corp., General Electric Co., Burroughs Corp., Remington Rand Univac Division and Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Plugs & Pressures. Chary as he was of words that might commit him, Nehru was as usual generous with advice. In Bonn he urged his West German hosts to seek reunification of Germany by "peaceful negotiations." In a speech before the German Foreign Policy Association at Königswinter he put in a vague plug for liberation of Russia's East European satellites ("They are, of course, under a certain domination . . . and I certainly believe they should be free") and a firm one for Red China's admission to the U.N. ("What is the good of calling...