Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past month. Furthermore, despite the franc's recent weakness, France still possesses some $3.5 billion in gold and foreign currency reserves plus nearly $4 billion in standby credits from the International Monetary Fund and her Western trading partners. Even so, the nagging worry remains either that the austerity program will bring on a recession or that runaway prices will force a devaluation to keep French goods competitive on the world market...
...years to exert their malign effects in small animals, and decades in long-lived Homo sapiens. Virologist Gajdusek, a human whirlwind who goes around the world half a dozen times a year, decided to become a model of patience. At the institute, he set up a long-range study program with a variety of animals, ranging from tree shrews to sheep and goats, a dozen species of monkeys, and a number of forbiddingly expensive chimpanzees...
...network's Sunday offering, as in the past, will be Public Broadcast Laboratory's weekly program. Monday is NET Journal, or documentary night. Tuesday will see NET Festival, a first-rate cultural series. Wednesday will be split among the monthly consumer series (Your Dollar's Worth), biweekly news backgrounders by New York Times staffers and various science programs. Thursday will feature NET Playhouse, a showcase for new U.S. playwrights and BBC productions. Extra time periods will be filled by specials, repeats and regional programming...
Still, neither the TV audience nor Congressman Boggs will be seeing all Beverly Hillbillies, and Family Affairs. It would still cost the industry too much -in ratings and program-development expenses-to beat all the swords into ploughshares. ABC's The Avengers is a festival of sado-masochism and murder (according to a Christian Science Monitor survey, the series averaged a violent incident every 31 minutes). It will undoubtedly go off after this season, but not necessarily because it is the most violent show on the air. A likelier reason: the violence it does to the network...
...Attrition takes care of these things," says William H. Tankersley, CBS vice president for program practices (censorship). What he means is that roughly 25% of all shows fail each season, and that this year they will be replaced mainly by variety shows and situation comedies. "It's a cyclical thing anyway," he explains. "Every four or five years the action shows build up, but every four or five years the comedy shows build up too. Violence in programming had already got to the cyclical buildup point before the Kennedy assassination...