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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summarize each day's events, Chinese producers and technicians, assisted by personnel on loan from the three U.S. networks, put together 20-to 40-minute nightly telecasts. These were notable for their rousing music-America the Beautiful and She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain were favorites-and leisurely pace. For the same type of sequence that an American network packs into 60 to 90 seconds, the Chinese frequently used more than five minutes, unbroken by commercials. Teng's diplomatic activities, his excursions to a Ford Motor plant outside Atlanta and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space...
Even so, NBC, the network that broadcasts the national college game of the week, will be taping the event, which features the 4-15 Crimson (2-3 in the Ivy League) challenging the Elis, who boast an 8-8 record (3-2 in the Ivies...
...Weissman is typical of a new breed of sharp-tongued television writers who showed last week that the docile, fluffy and often self-serving TV coverage of the past is fast disappearing. Their forum was a notorious newspaper junket, the semiannual network extravaganza to unveil new shows. Fifteen years ago, when such "press tours" were inaugurated, only two of the 40 television writers came at their papers' expense. This time upwards of 60% of the more than 80 critics were listed on network master sheets as POWS, an ironic acronym for paying their own way. (For some East Coast...
...University and Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia. Despite the fact that CBS required no special education to qualify for the job and his colleagues did not take kindly to the title, Harris insisted on being called "Doctor." Then, two weeks ago, the sky fell in on "Doctor Bob." The network learned Bob Harris through an anonymous letter that Harris had no more formal training than an Etruscan fulgurator and had lied about his degrees. In spite of a stream of protests from loyal listeners, he was fired...
...brief, and little was done to arrange for alternative sources of supply if the troubles continued into winter. Belatedly they are now rushing to get apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however, is an enormous engineering task, and even though the gas-rich U.S.S.R. has a surplus of the fuel available to ease the crunch in the Transcaucasus, the troubles in Iran could be long over before the pipeline rerouting is finished...