Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took a decisive lead over U Ba Swe, once his lieutenant, now his bitter rival, who lost his own constituency. But if Ne Win's army would now step down, it was by no means stepping out of the picture entirely. It has set up a vast network of Solidarity Councils with the motto, "Lightning from the Sky." The purpose of the councils: to take care of such matters as supplying fuel, guarding against floods, and urging villagers to report on anyone suspected of being a Communist or a rebel. Furthermore, through a kind of super PX that just...
...frills bill of fare ("the kind of dinner that might have been served in a Kansas home around the turn of the century," as the menu put it): "Eisenhower vegetable soup," sliced beef, corn pudding, "homemade" bread and apple pie. Most tied into the same closed-circuit TV network while Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in Manhattan summoned up the G.O.P.'s biggest names (Vice President Richard Nixon in Chicago, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washington, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in Pittsburgh, et al.) for fervent testimonials to Ike. Said Lodge: "Like George Washing...
...French West Point, he was a general staff officer when war broke out in 1939. After the French collapse, Challe entered the Resistance and is credited with sending Eisenhower's headquarters in London the entire battle order of the German Luftwaffe, as well as the Nazi air defense network in France...
...Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker Allen and his sham philosophers. It was, allowed the network, perhaps a fine idea for some other spot, time and moderator. Whimpered Steve Allen: "I feel like Edison might have felt if they turned down the electric light while they were sitting in the darkness...
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). One of the network's major efforts to make up for past failings in cultural and information programs. Second installment in the series is Freedom Is Sweet and Bitter, a report on the growing pains and growing power of modern Africa...