Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start, the chain chose Bartlesville, where it will convert one of its three theaters into a subscription-TV studio. The town has a compact pattern of telephone poles, and it gets good TV reception from three commercial stations. Explains Jerrold President Milton J. Shapp: "We wanted to compete with TV rather than come in on the fringe of TV reception." Estimated cost of wiring Bartlesville: $350,000. For the subscriber the monthly $9.50 charge will also cover the cost of connecting a lead-in from the coaxial cable to an unused channel...
...resisted change. Fish are still scooped from the trawlers with pitchforks that damage much of the catch, trundled off in ancient, scale-covered wooden carts, dumped into insanitary oak barrels. The Fulhams plan to install modern handling equipment, are also constructing the pier's first rendering plant to convert trash fish into meal for animal food and fertilizer, thus give the fleet a profitable incentive to go after porgies and other cheap fish when good fish are scarce...
...Thing. Sir Shane Leslie (of Castle Leslie, County Monaghan, Ireland) saw his first ghost while an undergraduate at Cambridge, and he has been collecting them ever since. A convert to Catholicism (1908), he edited the prestigious Catholic quarterly Dublin Review for nearly a decade, now, at 72, cuts a glorious Irish swath through London on his visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o'-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking. He pursues his ghosts with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression...
...around the conference, new field houses are bulging with fans of what many football coaches airily dismiss as "that round-ball game." Tangible proof of the new tradition at S.M.U. is the $2,250,000 field house off Mockingbird Lane completed this season. "We're not going to convert any dyed-in-the-wool football fans," explains Coach Hayes. "We're going to have to make our own fans. And we're starting...
Officially, the army blamed the killings on a falling-out among the rebels themselves, but many Cubans blamed government executioners. The anti-Batista Ortodoxo Party condemned "those in power who want to convert Cuba into a Hungary of the Antilles." The Auténtico Party, which Batista tossed out of power in 1952, blasted "the macabre spectacle of 21 Cubans slain precisely on the day of peace and Christian love, the day of our Lord's Nativity...