Word: network
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...Cong and North Vietnamese units are considered back up to full strength after their recent losses. In some areas, replacements are of higher quality than ever before; they have evidently come from training units long held back in the safety of the North. The Communist supply lines and communications network have been improved enormously by feverish labor on the roads and trails through Laos, Cambodia and the underpopulated border provinces of South Viet Nam. Viet Cong terrorists recently murdered 476 civilians in two weeks, more than in any other fortnight this year...
...Twiggy. If there is anything genuinely new in the new batch of sitchcoms, ABC can claim some dubious credit. Having proved with last year's hit, The Flying Nun, that audiences will sit still for anything that is sufficiently inane, the network now exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that...
...free of embarrassing questions from the press. CBS, which had ceded Daley nearly half an hour with Walter Cronkite the night after the bloodiest confrontations, refused to grant him a further audience. But Metromedia TV, with an audience in five large cities, and the Chicago Tribune-owned Continental Television Network, with some 7,500,000 viewers, this week will run an hour of Daley's defense...
...Chicago Fraternal Order of Police demanded television time of its own to reply to the "biased" TV coverage. A protest leader, David Dellinger of the National Mobilization Commit tee, also insisted on network exposure to broadcast a denunciation of the cops. To much of the nation, it hardly seemed that Daley's probity needed defending. Radio and TV stations, newspapers and politicians' offices showed letters running as much as 20 to 1 in favor of Daley and the Chicago police. Daley's mail, by his aides' account, was a cascade of praise. TIME reporters found that...
...satellites in the sky, links 62 nations around the globe and is considered a highly successful outpost of free enterprise in space. It is so successful, in fact, that Russia has decided to bid for a piece of the action. It is now planning its own global space-communications network, Intersputnik...