Word: channelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year's Godkin Lectures will be televised live on WGBH-TV (Channel) 2. Sir Charles P. Snow, British scientist and writer, will give the three lectures Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday on "Science and Government...
Replying with Excuses. West Germany's gold and hard-currency reserves have increased at the spectacular rate of $1 billion a year, now stand at $7.34 billion, more than double Britain's holdings. For four years, the Western allies have been pressing the Germans to channel some of this burgeoning wealth into foreign aid to underdeveloped lands. But Bonn answered with excuses: in 1957, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer protested he could not strain his budget in an election year; in 1958, it was a brief recession; since then, only a pittance has been produced, none of it very philanthropic...
...Ford Foundation pledged $40,000. With $112,000 to go, Greenburg got another philanthropic windfall of $55,000. Keeping it secret, he called a mass meeting of businessmen to spring his surprise. "I'll take 5% of what's left," cried a gleeful brewer. In ten minutes channel 9 had a full till...
...their show is in no more trouble than many shows in tryout. One prospective first-nighter who declared himself unworried was T. H. White, who will get 1% of the gross, or about $3,000 a month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night...
Nixon went out ahead in total popular vote at the very start of the evening, but Kennedy soon took the lead and held to it. His margin grew rapidly, until his plurality reached something between 1.8 million and more than 2 million, depending on which channel you were tuned...