Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inauspiciously, the network slipped the show in at midseason 1967 as a replacement for the slumping Man from U.N.C.L.E. CBS's Lucy and Gunsmoke, two top-rated shows sharing the opposing time slot, never knew what hit them. Within twelve weeks, Laugh-In leaped from 48th to fourth place in the ratings and tripped off with four Emmys as the most successful program of the season. What brought that success was not only the partnership of Schlatter, Friendly, Rowan and Martin, but the group of bright, young, remarkably versatile comics who people the show. Among the regulars...
...tiremaking Michelin family, which holds 56% of Citroën. Fiat would then reduce Citroën's dangerous $100 million-plus debt, almost $56 million of which is owed to the French government. In turn, Citroën would give Fiat access to its French dealer network, and the two would share manufacturing facilities...
...feet or 13 stories, whichever was lower. The results of improved structural-testing techniques finally persuaded the city engineers that skyscrapers would be safe. With the ceiling abolished, the city's skyline slowly began to rise. The major impetus was supplied by the completion of a network of freeways during the '60s. They not only converge on the core of the city but form an irregular loop around it, making driving downtown comparatively easy. Most of the new skyscrapers have sprung up along the sector of the freeway loop that is closest to the downtown core...
...Republicans have their way, the tax credit would supersede the current network of federal grants and loans to students. The credit plan would have a special appeal if campus disruptions continue because the benefit would go directly to parents, who are also the taxpayers and voters, rather than to students or college financial aid offices...
...wrists in order to win, and take pleasure doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham. He is booted out, thanks to the connivance of, among others, a homosexual programming chief in Hollywood...