Word: metros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, the pendulum has swung. Apart from some first-rate television journalism, the networks have been thoroughly overtaken by Hollywood, which, ironically, nearly went bankrupt when TV started. Last week ABC and CBS together agreed to pay $92 million for 110 movies from 20th Century-Fox, Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Top (and record) payout was ABC's $5,000,-000 for two showings in 1971 of the Burton-Taylor film Cleopatra. 20th Century-Fox, after fretting over the most costly ($31 million) production in movie history, can now thank TV for putting Cleo into the black...
When completed, the NASA research laboratory will be one of the largest of kind in the country. NASA officials continually stressed the proximity of M.I.T. and Harvard as the chief reason locating the laboratory in Cambridge other than any other part of the metro-urban area...
Governor Evans has created Design for Washington, Inc., to find ways of preventing the inevitable growth from botching up the landscape. An agency called Seattle Metro has been most successful in checking water pollution around Seattle. But Washington's laws on the whole are not yet ready for the boom. Around Bellingham there are no zoning or pollution regulations. Whether or not the coast remains a paradise is, for the moment at least, up to the esthetic sense of industry...
Elected as a reform county prosecutor in 1952, Metro Holovachka was later convicted of tax evasion. Former Gary Mayor George Chacharis was also caught on a tax-evasion charge in 1962 for failure to report $226,686 in kickbacks from contractors doing business with the city. Both could have learned from Chacharis' more astute predecessor. Mayor Peter Mandich, a U.S. attorney told a federal court, "received large amounts of graft payments, but the evidence does not show that he failed to report the payments as income on tax returns." Mandich went free...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). For Two Lovers, MGM built New Zealand in Culver City, cast Shirley MacLaine as a spinster schoolmarm who has this frigidity problem with men - like Laurence Harvey and Jack Hawkins. The result is somewhat Metro-Goldwyn-Maori...