Word: network
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...series of recent reports, the state government has shown great concern for improving the institutional network of state supported schools. But the reorganization of public education recommended by the Willis committee and the racial balancing suggested by the Kiernan report still require financial support. Encouragement of reform from Beacon Hill will mean little if the legislature is unwilling to underwrite the expense of improvement. Public school buildings are deteriorating and teacher salaries, particularly in the western parts of the state, are far below the scale of states with comparable per capita incomes...
...EVENING NEWS WITH ROGER MUDD (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The network expands its evening news to six times a week, all in color, with this first Saturday broadcast...
...overlooking the Lincoln Memorial, the Secretary of State was only an arm's length away from Johnson. A white phone near Rusk's uncluttered desk reaches Johnson directly. Alongside it, a pale green phone with a black receiver hooks him up to the new KY3 super-security network that links the President, the Pentagon and major military commands. Behind his desk hangs a Norman Rockwell watercolor of Johnson inscribed by L.B.J.: "To Dean Rusk, my wise counselor...
...maintain its vast surveillance system and uninterrupted communication with a network of planes, bases and radar stations, NORAD has installed 13 computers-each with its own job, each able to bail out any of the others in case of trouble. Those computers, with their intricate mix of sophisticated electronic aids, represent a new generation of automated information. Data from a BMEWS station in Alaska, for example, or a message from a Navy antisubmarine patrol plane, is fed into the banked computer memory drums and onto the glowing display consoles without ever passing through human hands or brains. So fast...
Seduction & Brecht. No network has a monopoly on inventiveness. CBS's Look Up And Live recently presented a dramatization of Dostoevsky's The Idiot, narrated by Kurd Hatfield, and last summer had a three-part series on the changing role of modern women in church and society called The Evolution of Eve. Scheduled for spring is a CBS special-a Brecht-like oratorio on Galileo and the Inquisition by Composer Ezra Laderman and Joe Darion, lyricist of the off-Broadway hit, Man of La Mancha. NBC's Frontiers of Faith will soon undertake a twelve-part series...