Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, a measure suspending the "equal time" requirement of the Federal Communications Act, as applied to presidential campaigning, for 60 days before the 1964 election. In effect, the measure would open the way for a repeat of the Kennedy-Nixon type of television debate by ensuring that a network that offers free time to the major-party candidates would not also be obligated to provide free time to a host of minor candidates. The Senate measure now goes to a final vote in the House, where a 75-day suspension had been approved last June. The bill left some Republican...
...Network. Even before the leadership election last February, Wilson confided to Laborite Richard H.S. Crossman that "Labor should be the party of science." He explained: "If I get the job, I believe the party will be able to liberate the frustrated energies of thousands of young scientists, technologists and specialists who feel there is no room at the top for them under the present antiscientific Old-Boy network in industry and Whitehall...
...humor isn't always subtle, at least it makes you laugh. Grand Fenwick's prime minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera. When the rocket is about to be launched, the Fenwickians interrupt the countdown at four for tea. And so on for an hour and a half. Terry-Thomas, Ron Moody, Roddy McMillan and half a dozen others help Miss Rutherford make Mouse on the Moon a delightful escape...
...rich people" but caterer as well "to their perverted tastes," and an avowed Communist sympathizer who yearned to paint Khrushchev's portrait. His close friend, Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, was a spy who made no secret of his activities. Poor Christine was "enmeshed in a network of wickedness" from the time she arrived in London at the age of 16 and took a job as a showgirl-"which involved, as she put it, just walking around with no clothes...
Last week, as the school year got under way, USAF had endorsed some 1,800 loans, bringing its total to more than 20,000 and $10.6 million. To date, only 21 borrowers have defaulted-three because of death. USAF's network has expanded to include more than 530 colleges and 3,600 banks in 44 states. Assets, which are provided by grants from foundations, corporations, colleges and universities, now total $4,000,000, and USAF can bring forth $12.50 in bank loans for every $1 in its reserve...