Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pump its burgeoning oil and gas production from new fields in the Caucasus and Urals, Russia has undertaken a 38,000-mile pipeline network, with two main legs: one westward from Kuibyshev near the Urals to power the factories of Russia's European satellites, the other thousands of miles through Siberia and on to the Pacific. Trouble is, Russia cannot produce all of the big-bore (up to 40 in.) pipe itself; so it has turned to capitalist manufacturers, mostly in West Germany and Italy, for 40% of the 2,500,000 tons of pipe it needs...
...Soviet Union boasts some of the tightest border controls in the world, but they are not tight enough to hold back a thriving network of Russian dealers in contraband currency that stretches from Peking to Paris and points beyond. Last week a Kazakhstan factory owner went on trial in Alma Ata after he was nabbed wearing a money belt crammed not only with rubles but also with French francs and U.S. dollars. In his home were three ounces of pearls, 2,700 antelope horns, which the Chinese prize for their supposed medicinal qualities, and 22 Ibs. of gold, which...
...York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, similar programs were broadcast at the same time, using little-known or totally unknown young performers. This is the CBS Repertoire Workshop, a joint project of the five TV stations owned by the network, intended not as a fling for amateurs but as a springboard for apprentice professionals. Each station will produce seven shows, and all 35 will be seen in all five cities...
...opened its new series in midweek prime time for one night only, instantly kicking it into the ghetto of weekend afternoons. Nonetheless, a project like this is more than praiseworthy. Mainly unsponsored. it represents money generously spent by the network on the potential of young performers...
...Rawlings ran the Air Force's Materiel Command, he took its procurement methods from the prop age into the space age. Under Rawlings, a Harvard Business School graduate, the old military system of stockpiling millions of items regardless of cost was turned into a worldwide computerized network of controls that lets little go to waste. This was just the kind of Wheaties that General Mills needed...