Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place to drive in. Scooters are fine, and walking is even better; but for most, the public transit system will do best. It's called the MTA, and 20 cents will get you almost anywhere. Park Street Station in downtown Boston is the hub of this underground network. But, remember the subways and buses stop...
Educational TV does not always deserve an A-plus. There are still plenty of dull didactic hours on all its stations, and N.E.T. supplies only ten hours of new programming a week, partly acquired from the BBC and other foreign producers but generally produced by the network itself and its affiliates. Mainly, local stations have to fill their time independently, and much of it is devoted to yawning forums and tediously detailed state histories (Nicholas Nobody slept here). But some local programs are excellent, and these are picked up by N.E.T. for distribution to the whole network...
...name stars and variety shows are obviously beyond educational TV's reach, and will remain the exclusive province of the commercial networks. But last week the Fourth Network, as it likes to call itself, was offering everything from Ibsen's The Master Builder to a documentary on Japan: The Changing Years...
...fight for their rights. H.O.A.C. firmly denies it had any part in the strikes, but frankly admits that "We have worked with thousands of men. and it is they who took the lead." Constantly pointing up the contrasts between Spain's poverty and its wealth. H.O.A.C. has a network of offices in all major cities. It represents the church's hedge against the chance of Franco's downfall...
...Design. Massey already had a global network of distributors and assembly plants. But Thornbrough thought that M-F could make more money and keep better control of its product if it built its own manufacturing organizations around the world. In 1959 M-F took over Perkins. Ltd. of Peterborough, England, a company from which it had been buying 160,000 diesel engines a year. It quickly followed that with the purchase of the Standard Motor Co's tractor factories, in Coventry. England, and in France, then expanded into Italy, South Africa. India and Brazil. Today the company operates...