Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last time around, the Liberals won 18 of 20 Toronto seats, but the Conservatives held an 11-point lead in the polls three weeks ago. Recent surveys, however, show the Liberals have narrowed the margin to five points, and the number of undecided voters has risen. Trudeau's campaign magic may yet sway the Canadian electorate to grant him four more years...
...million out of roughly 73 million households that have one or more sets. The numbers are growing so rapidly that Young and Rubicam, the ad agency, predicts that almost one of three TV households will be on cable by 1981. Says Vice President William Donnelly: "Thirty percent is the magic number that made regular TV a mass medium and that later made color matter to advertisers." After reaching that point, cable would have a potential for further fast expansion. By industry count, TV cables (made of copper wire wrapped in plastic foam and an outer layer of aluminum) have been...
...Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts-is still an unfulfilled promise. John W. Mazzola, president of Lincoln Center, professes himself "totally confident that we will be on a pay-cable system in a couple of years," but indications are that Lincoln Center officials are waiting until cable hits the "magic number" of 30% of all TV households reached-which could be in 198 lor later...
...helping producers finance those that look good. The purpose is to assure a supply of movies for HBO customers. Results of the first few films that have been produced with HBO's help have been mixed: Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? was a moderate success; Magic and The Bell Jar were panned by many critics, including those writing for Tune Inc. magazines...
...small band of mostly ex-physicists who decided to use bacteria-eating viruses as a kind of genetic scalpel; the virtually forgotten work of Rockefeller Institute's Oswald Avery; the painstaking efforts of scientists to explain exactly how DNA and its kin, RNA (for ribonucleic acid), performed their magic; and finally the patient toil of Britain's Max Perutz, who unraveled the structure and precise workings of the blood's oxygen-carrying molecule that, in complexity of design, is to DNA what a skyscraper is to a town house...