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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cable & Cannon. Not all the cameras in Philharmonic Hall are permanent installations. Many will be brought in by whatever network is covering a particular event. But the receptacles are there for plugging in the equipment wherever it is needed, and no longer will miles of cable snake down aisles to trip the unwary...
Five years ago Toronto's Massey-Ferguson Ltd. was on the brink of bankruptcy. Dragged down by unwieldy inventories and a slumbering dealer network, the 115-year-old implement manufacturer in 1957 lost $4,700,000 on $400 million worth of sales in five continents. This week Massey-Ferguson will happily report on its performance for the first half of fiscal 1962. With business up 15%, the company is expected to show sales of about $263 million and profits well above last year's first half net of $6,000,000. The secret of this rejuvenation: a change...
Everywhere, progress carries health problems in its train. Agricultural economies may be improved by a new network of irrigation ditches. But more ditches mean that more field hands are exposed to a debilitating infestation of flukes, transmitted by snails. In the mushrooming cities of newly developed countries, haphazard water supplies and inefficient sewage disposal seed the bacteria that touch off dangerous epidemics...
...actress walks." With that in mind, Aubrey said, it would be "quite easy" for people in the business to read "broad" as "wholesome, pretty girl," and "bosoms" as "attractive." NBC's Robert Kintner added that when Senate gumshoes come across the word "sex" in his network's file, they should understand it to mean "romantic interest, boy-meets-girl, attractive girls, love stories-nothing immoral that would be out of place on the home screen." Onward. But Dodd was unsatisfied with learning that sex is a many-splendored thing. "We have heard such terms as the 'Kintner...
...which a buyer takes a mixed bag of stars and shows in order to get a few good ones. In 1949, MCA moved into television to "fill the vacuum" created by Hollywood's lack of interest. It formed the superefficient Revue Studios which now controls 14 hours of network television each week and is the world's biggest single TV producer...