Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue Network. In Lithgow, Australia. taxi drivers agreed to watch their language after some of their two-way radio communications were accidentally 'broadcast over the loudspeaker in Our Lady of Fatima Church...
...COVER) Television monitors glared eerily in the darkened U.S. Air Force command post at Sunnyvale, Calif. At a winking control console sat Lieut. Colonel Charles Glenn Mathison, commander of the 6,$4Qth Test Wing (Satellite), listening through earphones to the crackle of reports from a vast communications network. Mathison made a final check with radar tracking stations scattered around the earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five...
...episode, part of the Men into Space series, had been in the can since March, and no one at the network real ized how hilariously untimely it was. A team of Russian spacemen and a team of American spacemen, all moon-based, were doing their best to make the first voyage to Mars-all in the spirit of Camp David, with vodka toasts and lots of mir i druzhba ("We will meet on Mars and have a picnic...
...fall TV shows (including four Ed Sullivan appearances), and his nightclub fees have gone from $200 a week to $5,000 and more-a remarkably bullish development for an unknown comic who did his first nightclub act only three months ago and has so far made only one network TV appearance (with Jack Paar...
Mueller's views produced a rash of 90 phone calls from viewers protesting his highly colored view of the U.S.'s stand and Lodge's speech. NBC promptly pulled Mueller off the U.N. assignment and sent him back to his regular beat as radio newscaster. The network denied having yielded to pressure: the decision to move Mueller, said William R. McAndrew, vice president in charge of news, had been made "hours before he got on the air." Assessing the whole flap. New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould made a key point: "After seeing Mr. Gromyko assail...