Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through London, where Peter Jennings, one of the show's three anchormen, is always stationed to read foreign news. London is five hours ahead of New York, and Jennings has already taped his segments, which are fed, along with everything else, into a warren of machines in the basement of 7 West 66th. There sound is meshed with video. The recent purchase of new equipment has greatly speeded up the complicated mixing process. Nonetheless, there is a frantic rush each afternoon; everything must be ready by 6. The other networks offer their affiliates a choice of only...
...five minutes to 6, the captains on the bridge pick up their papers and rush down to the control room in the basement, where seven or eight technicians are already in place. There, facing a wall of TV screens, they orchestrate the broadcast. Porges makes sure that each segment adheres to its time schedule. Because of commercials there are only 22 minutes for news in the half-hour broadcast, not a second more. If something runs long or short, the two domestic anchormen-Tom Jarriel in Chicago and Frank Reynolds in Washington-have been given compensating sentences they can drop...
Once upon a time, a savvy Japanese hotelman named Hideki Yokoi came up with the ultimate gimmick. He spent $300,000 for a phoenix-shaped, 22-karat, solid gold bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity...
...they will play good hockey and they might even outhustle their opponents. In fact, if something prevents them from relinquishing their 1979 Beanpot basement position it will be the Crimson's chronic hesitation in front of the opposing...
Harvard would "especially like" to beat B.U.--since it has fallen to all of the other Beanpot competitors and since it ended up in the spot once reserved for Northeastern's men (the basement) in last year's tourney...