Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington since the early 1950s. Pay-television companies would provide subscribers with a special TV-set attachment that decodes scrambled signals to bring such features as Broadway shows, operas and first-run movies. The campaign to slay the monster is led by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO to the trade) and supported by some projectionists' union locals. Legitimate theaters are not a part of the national association or its fight. Regular television stations, even though they might benefit from NATO's offensive, have also stayed out of what is becoming a scare campaign...
Slob Area. Exhorting the Illinois chapter of NATO, Campaign Co-Chairman Henry Plitt proclaimed that "the monster can destroy every movie house in the U.S. When the marquee lights go out, it doesn't take long for the small community to become a slob area, a slum." NATO also warns that pay-TV puts traditional TV in jeopardy and "discriminates drastically against the poor...
...NATO's fear is understandable, but its arguments have been so extreme that Rosel Hyde, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently issued a fact sheet to deal with what he called "a totally unfounded and untrue campaign." Pay-TV, said the paper, "will supplement, not supplant free television." Pay-TV would be restricted to markets where at least four standard stations are already operating. Pay-TV operators would not be allowed to charge for a series like Laugh-In or Here's Lucy, or for sporting events now seen on free TV. They would deal only...
...presentations of heavyweight-championship boxing matches and the Indianapolis 500 auto race, both of which are shown in movie houses for $5 to $10 a seat. (Last May, one Fort Worth theater marquee inadvertently carried two contradictory promotions: SAVE FREE TV and INDY 500 RACE CLOSED CIRCUIT TV.) The NATO contention that pay-TV would rob the poor is similarly leaky. With subscription TV, a whole family could see a film for $1.50 or so, far less than the price of admissions, baby sitter and transportation to the theater...
...relations between the U.S. and Europe better than they have been for years. The moon landing left Europeans spellbound, and Charles de Gaulle is no longer France; but some of the credit for improvement in the U.S.-European ambience this year is due to Nixon's February tour of NATO capitals and the sound advice of the President's White House foreign-policy adviser, Dr. Henry Kissinger...