Word: network
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...Advertiser's banner red headlines and high feature count are not likely to pull it abreast of the paper that carries 50% more columns of news each day, keeps 69 men in the newsroom (to the Advertiser's 39), has a larger correspondent network, with staffers in all the outer Hawaiian islands and stringers in Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands and the U.S. Some 12,500 outer islanders also get the Star-Bulletin daily, by air; another 9,904 Hawaiians in Hilo, on Hawaii Island, take the Tribune-Herald, which is owned by the Star-Bulletin...
...window and find it's raining. That's because there is now a six-hour lag between forecasts." To cut weather forecasts to only a 20-minute lag around the nation, Tech Ops has joined with United Aircraft to develop a semi-automatic weather forecasting network for the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Agency and the Weather Bureau at a cost of more than $100 million. Linking a series of computers in major cities, it will digest temperature, pressure and cloud formation data, come up with speedy and accurate forecasts...
...Symington, Hubert Humphrey and Adlai Stevenson, with some 200 first-ballot votes among them, could be persuaded to hold on. His other hope was to try to keep state Governors heading up uncommitted or favorite-son delegations from giving way to Kennedy on the first ballot. Johnson had his network of support, mostly congressional friends. He had his handful of devoted admirers. At one point. Colorado's ex-Senator Ed Johnson, who had been kept off the delegation by a Kennedy coup, shuffled up to say: "I'm just Johnson all the way. I'm trying...
Democratic National Convention (CBS, NBC and ABC from 6:00 p.m.). † Nominating speeches. By counting every last electrician, each network can claim that its own delegation to Los Angeles, between 300 and 350 strong, outnumbers the delegation from any state in the union. Led by Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley, the NBC forces are pledged to use all sorts of cameras, right down to hand-held "creepie-peepies." Battling them every step of the way for nomination as the TViewers' choice will be the CBS group led by Walter Cronkite and Ed Murrow, and the ABC unit under...
...certain respect, summer courses may have reflected a growing American concern with learning. The NBC network, for example, broad cast a series of five lectures during the summer of 1935, including one by William Y. Elliott, later Director of the Summer School. "American Town Meeting of the Air" originality from Sanders Theatre all through the summer...