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...Spot. Each network firmly believes it has a host of loyal followers who sit before the glowing tube and never tune to another channel all evening long. Therefore what precedes and follows each program becomes terribly important. A show that has a small audience, even if it has a contented sponsor, is a network liability. NBC last year dropped the veteran Voice of Firestone, despite the advertiser's willingness to pay its way, because the network thought the show's low rating ruined all the programs that followed it. Explains an executive: "A bad show in an evening...
Both groups have refused to allow the Soviet team into the country because Frank Walsh, an experienced San Francisco sports promoter, arranged the tour this summer by himself, without the A.A.U.'s approval. Dan Ferris, the Secretary of the A.A.U., said Walsh went through "the wrong channels" in scheduling the trip. But couldn't the A.A.U. find it possible to steer him into the "right channel...
...Alumni Bulletin," in printing the Memorial Hall letters, pointed out that restoration of the tower would cost up to $100,000 and that "it seems a fair question whether this project is the most desirable channel for so much of the University's unrestricted funds." William Bond Wheelwright '01 answered in a succeeding issue with "a fairer question: . . . Does the Corporation deny it is its legal duty to maintain its property in proper condition...
...stronger and more dead cells disappear, temperature and blood count return to normal. At the same time, the heart is developing collateral circulation. Immediately after a clot forms, the pressure drops in the area beyond it, and blood enters the area by alternate routes, such as already-existing interconnecting channels (see chart). Later, new arteries may grow into the area, and after that a new channel may even grow through the clot...
...monthlong, "entirely personal" air trip around the world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...