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- DIED. Dean Burch, 63, chairman of the Federal Communications
- Commission under President Richard Nixon; of cancer; in
- Potomac, Md. In 1964 he led Barry Goldwater's unsuccessful bid
- for the White House. As head of the FCC from 1969 to 1974, Burch
- pressured the television networks to give more favorable
- commentary on Nixon's speeches and advocated more and better
- programs for children. He denounced much children's fare as
- "just chewing gum for the eyes."
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