Congress Backs Pay TV Clash With FCC Probes
The FCC faces bruising House probes over pay television and the ABCIT&T merger. Chairman Harley Staggers signals possible hearings while Rosel Hyde defends a nationwide pay TV proposal awaiting congressional input. MacDonald also expresses interest in the issue as committees weigh jurisdiction.
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Federal Communications Commission
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FCC
American Broadcasting Companies Inc
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
House Commerce Committee
Abcit&t
Harley C.staggers
D-W.va
Staggers
Rep
Targert H. MacDonald
Dmass
Rosel H. Hyde
Commerce Committee
Commission
Hyde
Congress
Kenneth A’ Cox
MacDonald
Abcit&t Merger
Notable celebrities attend Chaplin film premiere in New York
Lynda Bird Johnson greeted by Henry Fonda at the Sutton Theater for the New York premiere of A Countess From Hong Kong, as vintage cars recreate Chaplin era for a charity benefit. Also notes Mrs Kennedy and children plan a 10 day spring vacation to Acapulco with Royal Radziwill family. Rienzi Lemus donates 5000 dollars to Children’s Hospital. Nixon meets Pope Paul VI before Moscow trip.
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NEW York
Lynda Bird Johnson
Henry Fonda
Sutton Theater
Charlie
Chaplin
Hong Kong
Benefit For Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc
John F. Kennedy
Caroline
John Jr
Puerto Marques
Acapulco
Kennedy
Fernando Parra
Did You Know Facts Prompt
A cubic foot of gold weighs about 1200 pounds. The Caspian Sea is the world’s largest inland body of water.
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Igland Sea
Caspian Sea
NBCs Project 20 revisits Indian history in uneven style
Cynthia Lowry notes NBCs Project 20 relies on archival imagery to recount the displacement of American Indians on the Great Plains. The program showcases old faces and landscapes but becomes overlong and repetitive despite earnest narration and Broadway musical interludes.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
NBC
America
Great Plains
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