Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within an hour after witnesses left the stand, a network of 14 stations was playing the juicy testimony over the air. Nightly each station had a 3½-hour trial roundup for the benefit of working people who had missed the daytime broadcasts. By the end of the trial, with the defendant found guilty, public feeling had been so aroused that one lawyer commented last week: "I'm afraid that the radio and newspaper coverage of this trial will make it impossible to find a jury anywhere in Mississippi in case a new trial is ordered.'' Such...
...spot, and rank only below the Pennsylvania. Another road deeply interested in the C. & O. merger is the New York Central. It has been talking to the two roads about a three-way merger that would make the biggest U.S. railroad, web the Eastern states with a network touching almost all major cities...
...rest of the show was gaudy, pretentious and dull - one of the worst TV hours in memory. Considering that it was taped almost two months ago in Miami, someone missed a major chance. As it sat on the shelf for seven weeks, some network employee - with guts and a Zippo lighter - could have sacrificed his job for the sake of the industry...
...Ford Foundation's contribution will finance a team of Indian and foreign farm experts to take charge of the program, build teaching centers to train hundreds of additional agricultural specialists, and construct a network of seed-treatment and soil-testing stations. The government will expand local storage facilities, distribute fertilizer, insecticide and seed for sale to peasants, and create a farm-credit system to help farmers finance their own improvements. The scheme will operate along lines of U.S. soil-conservation projects; farmers who agree to improvement plans will get a package deal of soil testing, fertilization and planting that...
...even Betancourt escaped Cuba's wrath last week. Over the Eastern Radio Network, Castro's leading commentator, José Pardo Llada, called Betanceurt "vacillating," a "democratic anti-imperialist, but not much," "revolutionary, but not much." And that, said Pardo Llada, goes as well for former Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...