Word: got
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...American, which already flies to Japan from California, got new routes from Seattle and New York over the North Pole to Japan. Northwest Airlines, also a Pacific veteran, will get an additional route to Japan via Hawaii. Result: more competition between Pan Am and Northwest, but also more opportunity for each to attract traffic. Finally, the Flying Tiger Line landed an all-cargo route to Southeast Asia...
...weeks before the opening of their season, the Baltimore Bullets be decked the town with posters portraying determined-looking team members and bearing the line, WE'VE GOT A FEW SCORES TO SETTLE. The hoopla sounded nice but, since it was raised by a team that had finished last in its division for two straight years, nobody believed a word of it. Nobody, apparently, except the Bullets. Last week, with a league-leading 24-7 record, the once lowly Bullets were the surprise hotshots of the National Basketball Association...
...such a campaign, the FCC felt that all it could do was authorize a few experimental fee-vee operations. And none was on a large enough scale to test either the hopes or the fears of the contending interests. A pilot system was franchised in Denver but never got on the air. A Bartlesville, Okla., project lasted nine months. Other projects were quickly aborted in New York City and Chicago. Fee-vee's most promising and disheartening trial came in Los Angeles. Just as the operation seemed to be catching on, the broadcasters and film exhibitors forced a repeal...
...Detective). In earlier days, WHCT was more venturesome. It carried a 1963 Joan Baez concert live ($1.50) and the 1964 Clay-Liston fight ($3). That drew 63% of the clientele. There have been other signs of pay-TV appeal. Patients at a Hartford old folks' hospital who got their service free were so enthusiastic that they made a bed-to-bed collection and sent the proceeds to the station...
...Greek partisans, they rejected him as unreliable. Kazantzakis derided the party's attempt to reduce life to a set of abstractions. Communists, he wrote, reminded him of Jean Jacques Rousseau, who took a prostitute to his room in Venice. "When they lay down in bed and she got undressed," Kazantzakis writes, "poor Jean Jacques began begging her to take the straight and narrow path...