Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN the President's Midway announcement crackled over transistor radios tuned to the Armed Forces Viet Nam Network last week, few G.I.s even paused in their tasks to listen to it. Rumors of troop withdrawals had been making the rounds in the war zone since peace talks got under way in Paris a year ago; when nothing happened, the results were skepticism and indifference. Then word reached the men of the U.S. 9th Infantry and 3rd Marine Divisions that some of them would be among the first 25,000 to be replaced by Vietnamese troops. Green second lieutenants and combat...
...Carl Betz, star of ABC's Judd for the Defense, won an Emmy as the Outstanding Actor in a Dramatic Series. But just as ABC picked up Mrs. Muir, it dropped Judd. No other network has taken on the show...
...foes as Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies and Andy Griffith -all rerunning for their lives-Cavett found himself and his talk program scrambling for ratings. While insisting that they liked the guy a lot, ABC nonetheless canceled the show. But not for long. Cavett is back on the network -in prime time...
Spade Cat. His new program may have the strangest schedule on network television (Monday, Tuesday and Friday, from 10 to 11 p.m. E.D.T.), but the show is better than ever: a limited number of guests (usually four) and commercial breaks...
...this is a far cry from the days of Lenin and Stalin, when Moscow was truly the capital of the world revolution. Housed in a dingy building just across the street from the Kremlin, the Comintern ran a shadowy, tightly organized network of agents and conspirators who carried Moscow's orders to parties far and near. In those days, the first duty of a Communist anywhere in the world was to support the Soviet Union. Stalin said: "A revolutionary is one who without arguments, unconditionally, openly and honestly is ready to defend and strengthen the U.S.S.R...