Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discarding Westerns and situation comedies, it will carry shows supplied by the CBS network as well as original programs featuring local amateur and professional talent. Many shows will be directed especially toward Boston viewers...
...broadcast-rating industry was being rated itself last week. Representative Oren Harris' Special Subcommittee on Investigations summoned industry experts, network executives and station operators to try to determine whether the raters "say what they do and do what they say." Starting with the smaller firms which provide local ratings (there are some 200 firms doing such work in Manhattan alone), the testimony turned up some odd bugs...
...another work of Boulez, Gyorgy Ligeti observes: "Seen at close quarters, it is the factor of determinism, regularity, that stands out; but seen from a distance, the structure, being the result of many separate regularities, is seen to be something variable and chancy, comparable to the way the network of neon lights flashes on and off in main street; the individual lamps are indeed exactly controlled by a mechanism, but as the separate lights flash on and off, they combine to form a statistical complex...
...Time's taciturn, Norwegian-born President and Chairman Joakim M. Lehmkuhl, 67, ordered his engineers to design a watch so simple that it could be geared for automatic production. The watch they produced is so uncomplicated that its works are mounted between two plates instead of a network of five as on other models, and have only four screws v. 31 in other watches. Timex's simplicity gives it amazing shockproof qualities, but most jewelers agree that, with its metal bearings, Timex will not keep time as faithfully as an expensive jewel-bearing watch. Lehmkuhl retorts that...
Melons & Minks. They have been getting more importunate every day. Some 2,000,000 strong, twice as numerous as the district's daytime human population, the Ginza rat kingdom seems to have been caught up in a revolution of rodent expectations. No longer content with their network of underground rivers and sewers, armies of rats now prowl the Ginza every night after the cabarets have closed and before department stores open. Rats with affluent tastes gorge themselves on such fancy groceries as melons, leather furniture and mink coats. One gormandizing rat pack even held up construction...