Word: network
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...invariably act like children, children act like grownups, and women act as if they owned the network. Whatever the relentless nightly triumph of the Female Principle over male boobery may prove about America's "image" of itself, it makes for slick, generally dreary entertainment. The latest samples...
Telephone & Telegraph, which wants to put up a $170 million network of 50 satellites to carry telephone calls and television throughout the world...
Freeze & Pry. Californians are proud of their university network, and well they might be. It is huge, young, brilliant, aggressive, progressive. It colonizes everything from the atom to outer space. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Cal's physicists run one of the world's famed atom smashers. At the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the galaxies. Thanks to Cal's engineers, California's farms are the most mechanized in the U.S. The university runs the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N. Mex. It owns ranches, apartment buildings, forests, hospitals, vineyards, movie studios...
Eventually the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization, which pools the weather services of 102 member states and territories, will establish a similar network in the Southern Hemisphere. Reports will be broadcast twice each day, so anyone with the proper receiving equipment can tune in on the weather in all parts of the world...
When the U.S. State Department asked television networks to show restraint-i.e., schedule no special Khrushchev appearances-the suggestion was resented as unnecessary. The Mutual radio network, which claimed to have received no such Government advisory, went ahead with its invitations to ten U.N. visitors, among them Khrushchev, to be interviewed. One TV network official recalled bitterly that only a year ago the State Department had pleaded for kind treatment to the Soviet Premier, on the ground that it would be reciprocated when Eisenhower visited Russia (Khrushchev, after the U-2 incident, reneged on his part of the deal...