Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 2,500 enthusiastic union delegates before him-applause punctuated his 35-minute speech 39 times-and a network TV audience, Johnson reminded his listeners of what he has done for them lately and not so lately, including two civil rights laws, immigration reform, an array of urban programs ranging from model cities to rat control, consumer-protection statutes, air-pollution control, minimum-wage increases and, inevitably, "81 months of solid prosperity to break all records in American history." Promptly and conveniently, the Labor Department announced that unemployment from October to November fell from 4.3% to 3.9%, while unemployment among...
Agents of South Korea's CIA fanned out through the world last summer to round up some 30 South Korean intellectuals-professors, painters, poets and composers-who were living and working abroad. The charges against them: spying for North Korea in a network controlled from East Germany...
...find out who we really hate." For years he has kidded General David Sarnoff, who takes both his brigadier's star and position as RCA board chairman with great seriousness. But even Sarnoff chuckles when Hope whips out with: "When I started with the NBC network, he was using the enlisted-men's washroom." And he has certainly had the last say on the progress of television. After Newton Mi-now's 1961 complaint that TV was a "vast wasteland," Hope measured television's subsequent progress and concluded: "Mr. Newton Minow is a man of high...
Greenwood's miniprogram is televised over KSTP in Minneapolis and WDSM in Duluth during the network break in Meet the Press. Called Comment Capsule, it consists of a film interview with a different guest each week. A crewcut, slow-talking fellow, Greenwood, 36, is introduced as the president of the Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association, but the plug in his "noncommercial commercial" ends there. The real pitchman is the week's visitor, for Greenwood never interrupts nor asks any discomfiting questions. All he does is get the guest started...
...core of Harvard's time-sharing computer network, has an unlisted phone number. Dialing that number rewards the caller with a unique, minor-key whistle, or else a busy signal, if 32 of some 125 SDS teletype units distributed around the University are already in conversation with the central computer...