Word: network
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...single possibility for education in this country," says Chancellor Gould, "that doesn't exist in the state university." Collectively, its campuses offer thousands of courses, ranging from the most abstruse branches of nuclear physics to secretarial training. The university also offers full-credit courses through a television network that reaches 80% of the state's population. On a given day, the Maritime College's 12,000-ton Empire State IV, a refitted troop transport, churns out toward the open sea; a lab class in horticulture at Cobleskill crossbreeds African violets. Future fashion designers cut patterns in Manhattan...
Staffers, however, are growing tired of dancing to Ellis' tune and are talking of quitting, much to the consternation of European listeners as well as U.S. officials in Bonn, who have prized the network as one of the best advertisements for the U.S. in Europe...
...biggest radio networks in Europe belongs to the Pentagon. Operated mainly for 200,000 G.I.s and their dependents in Europe, the American Forces Network also reaches some 30 million other listeners. Not only does it provide Europe with Continent-wide English-language broadcasts, it has also won fame for its independent, even-handed news coverage. Despite its U.S. military sponsorship, Europeans have come to rely on it for more speedy delivery of the news than their own radio and television stations...
Ellis ordered the network not to "engage in independent political or diplomatic reporting." AFN Correspondent Tom Kuelbs, who had built a reputation for sound political reporting from Bonn, was suddenly off the air and wire reports were read instead. Kuelbs was told he could tape his material if he did not interject personal judgments. When he got an interview with German National Democratic Leader Adolf von Thadden, it was rejected because no wire-service reporter had been present. Since then, a few interviews taped by Kuelbs have been used, but with his voice edited...
...amount of space placed around him, and by the way he is moved with relation to the frame. The more space Preminger has to work with, the more complex his films become, and Predictably, Preminger is a master if wide-screen cinematic technique. At best, Preminger creates a network of conflicting spatial relationships from the many people in his best-seller-based sagas, and his films work on a level far transcending the dramatic material. From this specialized, perhaps perverse, point-of-view, Hurry Sundown is close to Preminger's best film.