Politics
The Federal Communications Commission and The Beat Movement
The Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission, the government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, telegraph, radio, ect. had allowed 500 new stations to broadcast.
The Beat Movement
The beat movement expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers in the U.S. A portmanteau on the name of the recent Russian satellite sputnik and Beat Generation. This suggested that beatniks were far out of the mainstream of society and possibly pro-communist.