Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What kind of a bomb did Moscow explode last week? There were few clues. In fact, Moscow was not even admitting that an explosion had occurred. It was Washington that detected the test, on its secret worldwide network of nuclear observation posts. From the White House came a terse statement of the bare known facts...
...month) at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera. The interior of the villa is as dark as a cave, and is an idle mixture of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Chinese and Magyar decorative styles. Plumbing is in the classic French tradition: huge tiled arenas with a tangled network of pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts at Cannes and Juan-les-Pins and its proximity to the swimming, sunning and water skiing at the Riviera's chic Eden...
...gown considerably more billowy than her wonted tattoo-tight attire, but not billowy enough to conceal her six-month condition. Called upon to mount a stool for one of her numbers, the sultry South Carolina songstress found it a struggle, outraged Britain's myriad Mrs. Grundys (and snarled network telephone switchboards with carping calls) by chuckling: "Okay, Junior, this is the last engagement...
Such dedication helped Rondon, one of the most beloved Brazilians in history, to pacify 150,000 Indians through a network of 100 outposts, today linked by radio and airplane. But the continuing development of Brazil's interior has only aggravated the problem, as the advancing armies of road builders and jungle clearers encounter hitherto isolated tribes. And Rondon's successors-he died in 1958 at 92-are divided as to the problem's solution. Colonel Tasso Villar de Aquino, 49, who now heads the Indian Protection Service, thinks that the Indian must be integrated into the white...
Died. John B. (for Bright) Kennedy, 67, radio's pungent Garroway precursor, onetime managing editor of Collier's, who moderated Mutual's folksy People's Rally in the 1930s, gave the first network airing to scores of notables, including Al Smith; following intestinal surgery; in Toronto...