Word: network
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SPACE will be tracked by worldwide communications network to be managed by Western Electric Co. under $25 million U.S. contract. Part of Project Mercury, network is due to be finished in 1960, will monitor satellite's equipment, maintain contact with astronaut...
Canada's ordinarily bland and imperturbable radio and TV network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reeled along last week, leaderless and groggy from cumulative misfortune. For 22 years almost nothing happened at the CBC; suddenly, strikes, temperament and scandal popped up all over...
...government as a nation-binding cultural medium in a country that is strung-out, bilingual and unattractive to private networks. It tries to keep down its subsidy ($60 million this year) by selling commercials in a gentlemanly, low-pressure way. With its money, the CBC turns out a satisfactory and varied diet of Canadian-produced live and film programs, plus an occasional spectacular piped in from the U.S. The network's dilemmas are 1) how to be above politics when the government is paying the bills, and 2) how to apportion program production costs between the government...
Over the years the CBC has weathered intermittent squalls over charges of political influence and manfully faced up to the annual budgetary ordeal on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Lately the network's luck ran out, and woes came thick and fast...
...London, Fidel Castro's ambassador said that Trujillo has organized an arms-buying network across Europe, North Africa and the U.S.* Trujillo is believed to have agents and transshippers in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Tunis, London, New York and Rome, negotiating for bazookas, bazooka ammunition, tanks, armored cars, field artillery, shells, even British Vampire jets. He is also said to be recruiting mercenaries, including some from Franco's Spain, who are flown via Bermuda, manifested as farm laborers. Reacting...