Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heyday, Jimmy certainly delivered jobs-and pay. In the 19403 he seriously crippled the recording industry for 27 months, refusing to let his musicians cut so much as one groove until record companies popped with handsome royalties, which now bring millions a year to the A.F.M. He forced network stations to pay "live" musicians whether they were needed or not, proudly claims that he raised musicmen's income 200% while he held the baton...
...their living supplying the rest of France with table wines; when the grapes were poor, so were the farmers. But no more. Today, along with wine, growing shipments of melons, asparagus, peaches and strawberries flow from the Midi into Paris. Responsible for this profitable bounty is a new network of dams, canals and irrigation ditches running from Marseille westward almost to the Spanish border. Responsible for the irrigation network is a 59-year-old northern Frenchman with the incontestably Gallic name of Philippe Lamour...
...Engineers. Another close confidant of De Gaulle is Olivier Guichard, 42, who was Pompidou's administrative assistant before he caught the President's eye. A baron who maintains informal liaison with the left wing, Guichard is De Gaulle's traveling companion, troubleshooter and one-man intelligence network...
...strong hold north of Saigon that functions as a combination Pentagon and troop assignment center for Communist forces all over South Viet Nam. The government's mission: to clean out the 5,000 Viet Cong troops in the Zone, disrupt the Red communications and intelligence network, and cut Communist supply lines to the rest of the country. But the Viet Cong was nowhere to be seen...
Space was just getting boffo. TV at the time was reeking with quiz scandals, and Wolper decided that the respectable public-affairs bit held the treasuries of the future. He made his celebrated Race for Space, but the networks refused to show it, saying that they would never broadcast a public-affairs show over which they had not had total production control. So Wolper sold the program to 110 stations around the country, gaining as much exposure as he could have gotten on any network, plus major stories in the papers about the wretched treatment he was getting from...