Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good it's unbelievable," says WKBF General Manager Jay Berkson. The telegenic mayor had turned down earlier requests to do regular evening shows like those of New York City's John Lindsay or Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Berkson sold him on the afternoon program as a way to "reach the kids before their ideas and prejudices develop." "Why not?" agreed Stokes. "I've had so little time for my own two children, they might enjoy seeing me on television...
...future. His papers have been ceaselessly devoted to giving it a future. He has used them to bring in industry and federal grants, to drive out gamblers and prostitutes. He campaigned successfully to transfer the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City; he urged a massive state highway program, and most of those roads lead...
...business with its L-1011. Lockheed signed up TWA, Eastern, Delta, Northeast, and a British airplane sales company for a total of 172 planes. McDonnell Douglas, which will not break even until it sells around 100 airbuses, grimly admitted that unless other orders came in, the program would be scrapped. Now there is no danger of that...
WHICH is not to say the production lacks a sense of designed visual coherence. Although the settings themselves (for which no program credit is provided) are neither beautiful, flexible, nor functional--consisting largely of sliding stair units and walls bearing faded and indifferently rendered Egyptian wall motifs--the use Chapman makes of them is bold and consistent. Given an almost unnaturally broad and shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly...
...Committee on Race Relations and the Law School's Program established yesterday by Casner and dean-designate Derek C. Bok, is limited to making recommendations "to the appropriate people" after studying particular problems, Casner said...