Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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average of 3.87?). What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear. The last of the beloved "puffing billies" will yield to gaseous diesels or electric locomotives, and the aromatic privacy of the old first-class passenger compartment will give way to open, air-conditioned cars with central aisles, airliner seats and Muzak...
Bullets & Combs. Oliver Treyz (rhymes with preys), a math major (Hamilton College), a statistical control officer in the Army, a network and ad-agency research man, was admittedly no creator...
What the U.S. Wants. The West has a workable plan based on a 1958 experts' report envisioning a worldwide network of some 180 control posts. The draft proposed that 19 of them be located in the Soviet Union, 16 on the smaller U.S. territory, all spaced 600 to 1,000 miles apart. The foreign technicians in the control posts in Russia-one-third would be Russians, one-third U.S. and British, and one-third from other countries-would be confined to their stations. They would merely report instrument readings suggesting a blast, and then an international team would move...
...last week was right out of The Untouchables. This guy gets off the plane from Hollywood and a messenger comes up to him and hands him this sealed envelope. He opens the envelope. The letter says something like this: "Dear Mr. Treyz: As of this date your services as network president will no longer be required by the American Broadcasting Co. SIGNED: Leonard Goldenson...
...sales zoomed, sponsors were competing for programs, and by the fall of 1960, ABC was a contender for the title of the most popular U.S. network. Since imitation is the sincerest form of television, CBS and NBC hastened to adapt their programming to the ABC formula...