Word: channelized
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Chic Gig. The show's first objective is to be entertaining enough to attract and hold what its research staff finds to be a TV-savvy, channel-hopping and, hence, "fearsomely tough" audience. In this they will undoubtedly be successful: The Electric Company jolts along at breakneck pace, acharge with knockout graphics, funky score, zonky electronic effects and berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered...
...fiscal year. The agency also limped along for ten months without a chief administrator. Jerris Leonard, a Mitchell protégé who was less than a smashing success as the Justice Department's civil rights chief, finally moved over to run LEAA last April. Still, the one channel through which the Administration could have made a substantial contribution to combatting crime has been clogged by bungling and boondoggling...
...Soviets are on the verge of achieving their most concrete gain to date in Iceland, which is known as "the cork in the bottle" for the entire northern tier of NATO's defenses. From Iceland, U.S. Navy aircraft keep track of Russian craft moving through the Faeroe Channel and the Denmark Strait-including subs carrying Polaristype missiles targeted on U.S. cities. Last July the new coalition government of Iceland, which includes two Communist Ministers, asked the Americans to depart from their strategically important Keflavik base. Negotiations on the request have yet to begin, however, and they could take...
...order to entrap left-wing coconspirators. The material was not daringly muckraking in that both NBC and the New York Times had months earlier published interviews with one of the men who made the accusation. Later in the week, public TV's newly enterprising New York City channel, WNET, produced a fascinating behind-the-news special which included the segment in question and a panel of the principals and outside journalists arguing the wisdom of the PBS decision; apparently chastened by all the discussion, PBS at the last minute transmitted the WNET special for other network stations interested...
...World Bank will of course have a role to play, and has already begun to cooperate with the U.N. in the Mekong. There is some doubt about whether these international agencies will be willing to operate on the scale required. While strenuous efforts whould be made to channel development aid through them, bilateral loans from the U.S., and hopefully. Japan will probably continue to be important...