Word: haven
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...networks. His "superstation," WTCG in Atlanta, now reaches 4 million households in 46 states by broadcasting via satellite. Now the three major networks are trying to force the FCC to limit retransmission consent. Turner is spoiling for the fight. "The networks have had 30 years to upgrade television and haven't done it yet," he says. "They need competition to make them better." His plans include educational shows, limited commercial time and a news program with Daniel Schorr as anchor. He hopes to reach 7 million homes by 1980. Turner's newest yacht: Tenacious...
...Arvln Brown, 39, was fresh out of the Yale University School of Drama and just 24 in 1965 when he helped start the Long Wharf Theater in a converted warehouse in New Haven, Conn. Becoming artistic director in 1967, he set about making the Long Wharf one of the best and boldest regional theaters in the nation. Broadway dares not take many chances, but Brown does, and the result is a series of plays staged first in New Haven and then moving on to New York: The Changing Room, Streamers, The Shadow Box, The Gin Game and a revival...
...Haven Federal District Court Judge Ellen B. Burns ruled, after examining the evidence, that no sexual proposition was made, that Price's course grade was not affected by anything other than an evaluation of her academic performance, and that the manner in which Yale dealt with the complaint, while ad hoc, was appropriate. William Doyle, attorney for Yale University, said yesterday...
...speeches, Carter blamed the oil mess on OPEC's price increases, Congress's lethargy, federal bureaucrats' isolation on the "island" of Washington?and himself. Said Carter: "I've made some mistakes as President. People said, 'Mr. President, you haven't been leading our nation,' and I've learned my lesson." Standing in shirtsleeves in Detroit, he told 2,500 members of the Communications Workers of America, almost pleadingly: "I will do the best that...
...corridors, mingling and watching others run back and forth. Frank Moore slipped into the Oval Office at 9:30. Two of the President's speech-writers huddled in a doorway. 'You tell me what's going on,' said one official as he left the West Wing. 'I haven't got the slightest idea what they are doing, and I was just in there...