Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...United Front for Panther Defense, which called for the shutdown, issued a fistful of aggressive demands, including a $500,000 Yale contribution to the Panther legal-defense fund and a food donation to the Panther breakfast program to feed as many children as there are black students at Yale College (about 250). The real goal, though, was to mobilize Yale's students and teachers to help stop or at least influence the murder trial. The climate was such that Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. saw no unreason in characterizing the murder trial as "legally right but morally wrong...
Piene, 42, who was a founder member of kinetic art's Group Zero and now works with M.I.T.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, had been asked to put on an outdoor sculptural event by Citything, Pittsburgh's public arts program. The resulting balloon show lasted three days, cost contributors around $5,000 in cash and another $4,000 in materials and services...
Linked with it was a participation program for Pittsburgh's schools, whose students made hundreds of what Piene calls "wind things"-inflatables, banners, kites. Then they were all flown over the East Liberty Mall. "It was so joyous," said Piene happily...
...Subversive Activities Control Board, which Congress set up in 1950 to force Communists to register, has become the Federal Government's best-known on-the-job retirement program. Though inspired by the McCarthy era, when it was designed as a key Red hunter, the board has never registered a single subversive, much less controlled one. Most of its activity has been confined to watching lawyers battle over its right to survive...
...station WRNG in Atlanta. In a day when the networks dominate broadcast news, they have accomplished the near impossible for a local station: last week they won a George Foster Peabody Award for "a significant illustration of radio used to investigate and report on community problems."* Their prize-winning program was a half-hour documentary on strong-arm police tactics in Atlanta...