Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planning for this program had begun many months before. In early July of the election year Nixon had suggested that he debate with Humphrey, or as he said then, "the Democratic nominee," and after the post-convention electioneering got under way the debates were arranged by a Nixon aide, who proposed that the debates be held in the homes of each of the nominees with the whole family of each candidate participating. The arrangement quickly fell through, however, when Nixon arranged for a rush marriage of his daughter to the Eisenhower boy and then declared Ike "an intimate member...
...Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards...
MOST testmakers conceded that their own cultural backgrounds impose a distinct bias on their questions. Arguing that all U.S. employment and IQ tests reflect the culture of white, middle-class America, Negro Sociologist Adrian Dove, 33, a program analyst for the U.S. Budget Bureau, devised his own quiz. Wryly known as the "Soul Folk Chitlings Test," it is cast with a black, rather than a white, bias. Some of his 30 black imponderables prove extremely difficult for Whitey: 1) Whom did "Stagger Lee" kill (in the famous blues legend)? a) His mother, b) Frankie, c) Johnny, d) His girl friend...
...viewers with ads that are too annoying, too loud, too often and just too much. Roughly 20% of TV air time is given over to commercials (see chart, next page). This year 2,000 advertisers will pour $3.1 billion into television advertising twice the budget of the poverty program reaching 95% of the nation's homes. What's more, the TV spieler has a unique license. He doesn't have to stick his foot in the door. He's already in the living room, chattering away from The Farm Hour right through Sermonette. Conveniently deaf, he just smiles and hammers...
...Hurst, 36, believes that a California Court of Appeals has excused his parolee patients from further "clean" tests. He has advised them not to submit. What the court actually said was that state authorities could not bar a parolee from living at Synanon and could treat Synanon's program as the equivalent of surprise testing...