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...White House and directly across the street from Secret Service headquarters. It often houses visiting Secret Service agents. The cheapest room is $42 a night, moderate by Washington standards. Hinckley sat for hours in Room 312. He made two local telephone calls, using the hotel's direct-dial system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...such money-making scheme almost mandatory. Even before the election. PBS and local stations had been looking for new funds. PBS now makes $1 million a year by renting out time on its transmitting satellite; five local stations hope to make money soon on their new program magazine, the Dial, which has won all challenges to its nonprofit status. Chicago's WTTW is already making more than $300,000 a year on one of its subsidiaries, Chicago magazine. In addition, stations are leasing studio space to private producers, selling video cassettes of popular shows and pushing sales to foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Latest Perils of PBS | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Susan McEnany, business office manager for the Cambridge branch of New England Telephone Co., yesterday described the problem as "Intermittent dial-tones," Company officials have not yet determined the eause, she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Phones | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

...year-old AM station, 740 on the dial, bills itself as an "alternative" radio outlet. Specializing in folk and acoustic music, it is the non-University radio station in the city

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: WCAS Returning to Air After Three-Day Hiatus | 2/3/1981 | See Source »

...past year or so, at least 15 saloons have opened in Denver mostly in the southeast part of town, where singles apartments and condominiums are concentrated. In the San Francisco Bay area, where there are more than 125 of the clubs, prospective two-steppers can dial a special number (652-2792) to find out where the action is. Some newcomers are lured to Detroit's Urban Cowboy, the most successful C&W spread in Michigan, by truck drivers who tout its charms on their CBs. The Boston area, with a full-time AM country-music station, has about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: C & W Nightclubs: Riding High | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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