Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television. At Manhattan's Statler Hilton, guests jaded with westerns and private-eye shows can now watch Telad Corp.'s repeating half-hour program on what to buy, do and see in New York; this week and next, Telad will open shop on Channel 6 (normally a blank on the dial) in two other New York hotels. A rival outfit, Teleguide, will start broadcasting via its own coaxial cable to some 12,000 rooms at a dozen Manhattan hostelries this week. Its basic one-hour program will include entertainment, shopping and sightseeing news-plus weather and transportation reports...
...Birmingham, Ala., to start on the ten-hour, 365-mile run to New Orleans. At 2:45 they were barreling along Alabama Highway 5 when a cream-colored car passed them, raced on to a junction, turned and sped back. From the car a shotgun was fired point-blank at the cab of the lead truck, critically wounding Driver Charles Warren...
...already. One group called themselves "The Laughing Morticians." They included Alexander King, since become a TV chatterbox, satirist George Grosz, an exile from Nazi Germany, and Sociologist Gilbert Seldes, all of them eager to say the last rites over capitalism. The U.S.S.R., a distant and unverifiable protoutopia, brandished a blank check drawn on the future...
...Point-Blank. Warning darkly of a "Communist plot," Rodriguez Echavarria sent air force troops into the streets of Santo Domingo last week with orders to shoot to kill in case of trouble. They found trouble at the headquarters of the National Civic Union (U.C.N.), the country's strongest anti-Trujillo organization...
...Soldiers climbed a ladder to cut off the loudspeakers. A car drove up, and Rafael Bonnelly, the mild-looking lawyer and U.C.N. leader who was scheduled to succeed Balaguer as President, stepped out to protest. "Without warning," says a witness, "gunners on top of the tanks opened fire point-blank at the people." Soldiers pointed their guns at Bonnelly and shouted to their commanding officer to "get out of the way so we can shoot!" Bonnelly's aides pushed him into his car and raced away. Behind in the street lay five dead, 20 wounded...