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Called Eurovision, the international hookup was born in 1950. Individual countries can arrange for transmission of special events. For example, if a championship Italian soccer team goes to play in Britain, the Italian stations can arrange for a telecast, usually send an Italian announcer to provide the on-the-spot commentary...
...This was not a high school convention, but the tenth annual Emmy ceremonies of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, in which TV's most skilled practitioners hail the past year's best performances. Confessed Danny Thomas, the Hollywood M.C. on a Hollywood-Manhattan coaxial hookup: "They should never have comedians as presenters. Any comic on a dais figures he's got to do four or five minutes or the audience will think he's a bum." Milton Berle, TV's funnyman emeritus, quipped for 90 seconds longer than his allotted seven minutes...
...surroundings, people, the neighborhod." He asked Beer if he had ever been on television. Beer replied he had, on a national hookup...
...first permanent English-speaking colony. Afterward, with Prime Minister Diefenbaker acting as the Queen's senior adviser, she and Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also planned a day-long sightseeing tour of New York City. On a Canadian radio-TV hookup, Elizabeth said: "When you hear or read about the events in Washington and other places, I want you to reflect that it is the Queen of Canada and her husband who are concerned in them...
Short of War. Ike was in no mood for compromise next day when he addressed by telephone hookup a meeting of Southern Republicans at Louisville. He offered brief praise for a worthy accomplishment; i.e., the G.O.P. national ticket last fall carried 44 of the South's 57 most populous counties. But this was not enough. "Unfortunately," lectured the chief of the party, "we did not have candidates in 65 of the 114 congressional districts last year. I suggest as one of your goals for 1958 the correction of this situation." Another goal: to understand the nature of the controversy...