Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sutures had to be made by flashlight. Throughout his letters, the phrase persisted: "But so life goes." For the family, the life was a far remove from Redondo Beach barbecues. The diet was bananas, papayas and pineapples; goats, chickens and an occasional antelope. Though missionaries from the Evangelical Covenant network occasionally visited back and forth, amusement was usually family style: games of Scrabble, hymn singing, reading. The kids raised cats and dogs; Wayne built a monkey cage. It was hardly the usual Schweitzer-at-Lambarene scene. Even when the rebels showed up, it was far from dramatic...
Antennas & Thatch. Last week, while natives sang and guests drank a toast in kava (a paralyzing concoction of powdered pepper root and water), Idaho-born Governor H. Rex Lee dedicated an educational TV network that in two months of operation has transformed the islands. The net centers on a big (40,000 watts) transmitter, lifted to the top of 1,600-ft. Mt. Alava by a new, mile-long cable tramway that sways giddily over .Pago Pago Harbor...
...World War II, when every barracks and afterdeck resounded with homespun hits like Wabash Cannonball and Great Speckled Bird, C & W has spread with the rural populations to the industrial centers of the North and beyond. Today C&W is a bristling $100 million-a-year industry with a network of more than 2,000 radio stations from Massachusetts to California airing country tunes. Nashville, with 21 recording studios, produces 30% of the nation's hit singles...
Saint Stripper. Most Gauls guffawed last March when France's state-owned TV network spoofed two of the country's solemn passions, Bonaparte and bicycle racing. But so outraged at the "indecent parody" was retired Toulouse Lawyer Francois Bousgarbiès, 79, that the peppery little patriot haled the network into court for what the French press gleefully called "the new Battle of Waterloo." Demanded Plaintiff Bousgarbiès: the network must apologize to the nation, destroy the film and pay him 1 franc (20?) in symbolic damages...
...network, Defense Lawyer Yves Perisse scornfully declared that Plaintiff Bousgarbiès (who saw the show in a restaurant) did not even own a TV set, had not paid a TV tax, and thus had no right to complain of being "psychically traumatized." Not only is it perfectly legitimate to satirize historic figures, said Perisse, but the Toulouse court lacked jurisdiction over a show originating in Paris. Equally scornful, Bousgarbiès' lawyer, Georges Boyer, replied that the Code Napoleon entitles every Frenchman to bring suit in his own city. And Boyer solemnly added: "There is no statute...