Word: hookup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three hours just what President Sadat's condition was or who had attacked him. White House sources at first characterized Sadat's injuries as "not life threatening." As late as 9:57 a.m. E.D.T., former U.S. President Jimmy Carter assured CBS's Rather over a telephone hookup from Plains, Ga., that his diplomatic sources in Cairo had just told him "President Sadat will be all right...
...returned to A.J. Fletcher's WRAL. "The old man," says Bailey, "thought the sun rose and set right behind Jesse's left ear." WRAL, that hymn-and-hog-price 250-watter, was now Capitol Broadcasting, an empire embracing the radio outlet, Raleigh's first TV station and a hookup of about 70 rural stations called the Tobacco Radio Network. Fletcher piled three executive titles on Helms and let him do the station's editorials...
...latest project is a weekly talk show for the new Jewish National Television hookup, which goes to 50 cable outlets and a potential audience of 1.5 million. The Rebbetzin's first show dealt with the Nazi Holocaust. Said Jungreis, who spent a year in Bergen-Belsen: "We must learn to speak of the unspeakable, to answer the unanswerable. We are a nation that actually descended into the abyss of hell and yet retained a spark of divinity...
Another expanding computer service field is data banks that provide information for personal computers. After an initial hookup fee of $100, for example, a home computer can be connected through telephone lines to a machine in Alexandria, Va., that houses an immense information service called The Source. Customers can tap into 2,000 sources of data, ranging from a nationwide listing of job openings and up-to-the-minute financial news to world airline schedules and the entire catalogue for the wine library of Les Amis du Vin. During evening hours and weekends, the cost of bringing this information into...
That night came the Inaugural balls, which have been part of the Inauguration since James and Dolley Madison had one in 1809. For Reagan, there were ten balls around Washington (plus local versions in 83 cities via a closed-circuit TV hookup), the most ever, and the price of admission was $100 per person, also the most ever. The balls were generally glamorous, and most participants, at some point in the evening, had a good time. But many of the affairs were disorganized, and all were jampacked. Texas Millionaire John Bartlett, for example, was one of the unfortunates...