Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laugh-In was last season's biggest TV hit, and is already a solid Nielsen winner so far this year. But that alone would hardly be enough to draw such a motley assortment of celebrities to the show for $210 per appearance. What appeals is the program's extraordinary ambiance: it has an artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy...
...censorship barrier early last season. Then Laugh-In crashed through and went about as far as it could go without being arrested. By the standards of movies, books, theater, or even late-night TV talk shows, Laugh-In's new blue cheer is decidedly inoffensive. Still, the program is only half kidding when it announces: "NBC brings you Laugh-In in a plain brown wrapper...
...slumping Man from U.N.C.L.E. CBS's Lucy and Gunsmoke, two top-rated shows sharing the opposing time slot, never knew what hit them. Within twelve weeks, Laugh-In leaped from 48th to fourth place in the ratings and tripped off with four Emmys as the most successful program of the season. What brought that success was not only the partnership of Schlatter, Friendly, Rowan and Martin, but the group of bright, young, remarkably versatile comics who people the show. Among the regulars...
...Exit. The tragedy jolted NASA out of the complacency that had built up during the highly successful Mercury and Gemini programs, in which a total of 16 manned craft were sent into space, maneuvered and recovered without serious mishap. In a frenzy of self-doubt, NASA virtually tore up the Apollo program, shifted personnel, and clamped down hard on the procedures and workmanship of North American's Space Division, prime contractors for the Apollo spacecraft...
...been able to provide the assistance he admits is necessary; this summer the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education reported that federal aid to colleges and students should be at least double its present level. President Johnson has appointed a study group to develop plans for a comprehensive government aid program, but its future depends on the attitude of the next Administration...