Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britons as "Auntie BBC," has been - first via radio, then television - the sonorous, serious, slightly stuffy voice of England's Oxbridge-accented Establishment. Until, that is, the siren of commercial television sauntered on the scene nine years ago swinging her pocketbook in the guise of the ITV network and luring away the BBC's viewers. Auntie retaliated by taking on in 1960 a new leading man to spruce up her image: Hugh Carleton Greene, now 54, brother of Novelist Graham Greene, as director general. Greene brought in fresh-and often brash-young men, gave them a free hand...
...days, U.S. and South Vietnamese bombers blasted in stallations north of the 17th parallel, moving ever closer to Hanoi. During a single week, U.S. and South Vietnamese pilots flew 17,570 sorties on both sides of the border. Their chief target was North Viet Nam's radar network: with everything from half-ton bombs to deadly white phosphorous, they hit Donghoi, Hatinh, Cap Mui Ron and, in strikes by 100 Navy planes from the aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Han cock, Bachlongvi Island, only 80 miles from Red China's heavily fortified Hainan Island. For the first time...
...similar situation last year, South Vietnamese troops tried to knock out everybody with gas. They failed because of adverse winds, and had to retreat. The last use of gas was on Jan. 27, when Viet Nam government troops tried to flush a guerrilla force from a heavily fortified network of trenches, tunnels and caves, but again were foiled by tricky winds...
Walter Cronkite, who holds down the same time slot at CBS, gets more per minute ($24,500) but only runs four minutes of commercials on every half-hour show. Thus Cronkite will gross about $25.5 million next year, tops at least for his network. Says one NBC spokesman: "Unless ABC puts Peyton Place on five nights a week, Huntley-Brinkley has no competition...
...baffling blend of complication and simplicity. Basically, the digital computer is nothing but an electronic machine that can do arithmetic and retrieve information with incredible speed-but that very speed makes it, in its way, superhuman. Inside the computer's refrigerator-like cabinet dwells an intricate network of thin wires, transistors, and hundreds of thousands of tiny magnetized metal rings, all strung together into a memory-and arithmetic-processing unit. The location of each fact stored in the computer's memory is no bigger than the tip of a match, and the computer never forgets these locations...