Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Into this atmosphere of Democratic torpor and Republican cockiness, Harry Truman insinuated his legislative program. On the hardheaded advice of his staff he abandoned plans to appear personally before a joint session. But he sent word by his leaders that he wanted: statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; $14 billion more for defense, for a total this year of $43 billion; a $4 billion tax bill with a 75% bite on excess profits (see BUSINESS); $250 million more for the H-bomb; extension of rent control, which expires on Dec. 31, unless Congress acts; and up to $75 million to feed...
That night, at a big dinner for Erle at Fort Benning, General Marshall pointed another moral. He said that this nation had to have an enduring system of national defense instead of a "feast & famine" military program. While he was Secretary of State in 1947, Marshall recalled, the country had only one and a third infantry divisions, yet people were urging him to "pour it on the Soviets and give them hell." What the country needed, he said, was a system "that will not collapse at every change of the wind and temperature, a system that will keep us prepared...
...twelve Canadian and U.S. civil defense planners got together to translate some of the talk into action. Led by Canada's bristly Coordinator of Civil Defense, Major General Frederick Franklin Worthington (ret.), and U.S. Acting Civil Defense Director James Wadsworth, the delegates started to work out a unified program...
...country boy tackled his CBS job in a manner that made Kesten's eyes pop. Working 70 to 80 hours a week, Stanton rapidly became research director, then advertising director and found time to develop, with Vienna's Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld, an electrical gimmick called the Program Analyzer which automatically measured radio listenership...
...This rule was added in the faculty committee's version: "No organization shall be allowed to appear on a commercially sponsored Radio or T.V. program." Why not? Apparently for three reasons. First, that the performance might in some way reflect on Harvard's name. But Harvard's name is founded upon rock and no amount of petty smirching--even if there is any--is going to affect it. Second, that the University might seem to support the views of the performers (who might be the John Reed Club, say). But the next rule down on the list prevents an organization...