Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning while on the ground to hold back the curious crowds. Last week Pakistanis were not only staring at helicopters, but flying in them too. Pakistan International Airlines has started a helicopter service that will eventually link 20 east-Pakistan towns in the world's most extensive helicopter network. In a land where travel is made slow and difficult by hundreds of marshes and rivers, the three Sikorsky twin-turbine helicopters will reduce travel time dramatically: the 25-hour river trip that is now the shortest way between Dacca and Chalna will be cut to 45 minutes...
...culture. "If I had known in advance that it was going to be sponsored, I would not have permitted them to film," blocked Block. With that, he refused to sign a release unless NBC promised to contribute $5,000 to the Chicago Art Institute. Against our principles, mumbled the network, and the whole $10,000 worth of celluloid was destroyed...
caller can make a direct-through connection to any phone in the network. And he need dial only a few digits - regardless of network size...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller got up one grey morning last week to appear on NBC's Today show at 8:30. It happened to be one time of day that he could get guaranteed, live, national network coverage for his big announcement. Said Rocky: "I am here this morning-and I shall go to New Hampshire immediately following this meeting-formally to announce my candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination and my entry, at the proper time, in the New Hampshire primary election of March...
...Henry James's "personal touch." Now this is the kind of Jacobite Can't that drove me to distraction--and to laughter--during five long years. Fellow students of Harvard, I submit you have a concealed Jacobite Fellow-Traveler at the very center of your communications network! Fellow students of Harvard, I ask you to beware of these Jacobites! I say the problem is not to "Stamp Out Henry James"--as has been suggested--but to keep a stern watch upon these hidden Jamesians in your very midst! Fraternally, but ominously yours...