Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they did. Though their output of gastric juices has been drastically reduced, they suffer no indigestion. And all their ulcers healed within two to six weeks. The freezing achieves its effect not only by knocking out the fluid-producing cells in the stomach wall, but also by killing the network of vagal nerve endings that carry messages of hunger to the stomach. So, the Minneapolis team believes, freezing should rule out the need for most vagotomies (nerve-cutting operations), which have been done for the same purpose as gastrectomies and often combined with them...
...hope that its pursuits would be mainly peaceful. Yet some scientists were already warning that the U.S. atomic monopoly could not long be maintained, that the Russians were making progress. A far-sighted AEC commissioner. Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss, argued for a high-altitude patrol and seismographic network to detect Russian atomic explosions when and if they came. But AEC's idealistic first chairman, David Lilienthal, decided it was not needed. Finally, aroused by Strauss, the Pentagon picked up the tab, got AEC to furnish the technical knowledge to set up a rudimentary...
...peak of its trajectory, seconds after its engines cut out, it was blown to bits on radio command. Some 65 miles above the Atlantic, the water released by the explosion spread into a giant, sun-splashed cloud of ice crystals. Below, on the earth's surface, a network of radars and cameras traced the course of the cloud, gathering data for weathermen...
...customers. But it is too bad that WHDH didn't take the risk. There would have been a fuss (though few people seem to mind when a "perfect crime" or a sympathetic criminal is shown on a normal program)--but it is hard to believe that a station with network programs would lose much advertising or many viewers for showing such a film. Whatever future television has as a medium for serious discussion depends on the willingness of local station officials to risk occasional controversy. Recently CBS has been trying hard to give the public something more than escape--witness...
...network TV program, championing the case for legalized abortion, will not be broadcast by WHDH, Boston's local CBS channel. In announcing its decision not to carry the episode of the weekly "Defenders" series, WHDH called it "needlessly offensive to a substantial segment of the audience...