Word: network
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's faith in itself and in Jimmy Carter, the White House is gradually gearing up the nation's defense planning and spending. Within a few weeks Carter will decide whether the next step in ballistic missile planning should focus on movable barges, trucks, airplanes, or a network of underground silos where missiles can be randomly moved about. New ideas tumble over one another. There are those who are now convinced that the old submariner in Carter is quietly pushing for our major deterrent to be roving under the oceans. We lead the Soviets in that silent world...
Spain, like Portugal, has a superlative nationwide network of state-owned inns, called paradores, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. They are mostly in old castles, palaces or monasteries; all have good restaurants serving the specialties of the region and require advance registration. At Alarcon, for example, on the road to Valencia from Madrid, the Parador Marqués de Villena is a 10th century turreted castle, where a lucky visitor may rent a tower bedroom for $22 a night...
...lawyers about his conversations with Wallace, or why he decided to believe certain sources but not others, or how he chose what to put on the air and what to leave in the cutting-room. A lower court ordered him to comply, and CBS appealed. Somewhat surprisingly, the network won a sweeping victory in 1977 from a federal court of appeals: an absolute privilege to refuse to answer any questions about editorial thoughts or conversations. "Faced with such an inquiry," wrote Judge Irving Kaufman, "reporters and journalists would be reluctant to express their doubts. Indeed, they would be chilled...
...accumulating oil leases on the side. Producer-Manager Charles Joffe despairs of ever making a businessman out of Woody, and handles most of his affairs. Allen's "deal," as they say in Hollywood, is not as lucrative as it might be, partly because he seldom sells his pictures to network television (he hates the commercials) and because he would rather sacrifice money than lose the unlimited creative control he has over his work. "All Woody wants to do is make a dollar profit," Joffe reports. "He's always saying to me, 'If I make a dollar profit, then...
...Times and Publishers Norman Chandler and his son Otis. (Curiously, Halberstam largely ignores the New York Times, explaining that much has been written about the paper in the past and citing his "personal and ambivalent" feelings toward his former employer.) Journalism critics may argue that a newsmagazine, a TV network and two daily papers on opposite coasts are not strictly comparable, and they will be right. But Halberstam does not compare them. Instead, he constructs a vast mosaic out of the things they have in common...