Word: onto
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Only one was declared not guilty last week: Charles William Dukes, an American veteran of Viet Nam, who was carried onto the 707 under heavy sedation after being seriously wounded during the Seychelles gunfight. He was ruled incapable of having taken part in the heist...
...idea worked. When Turner's Channel 17 went onto the satellite in December 1976, the concept of the "Superstation" was born. Imitators followed (notable among them: Chicago's WGN-TV and New York City's WOR-TV). Turner is thus commonly cited as the first cable programmer to distribute via satellite. He corrects the record: "The first to go up there was Home Box Office. I just read about it. Give me the credit for going up to New York the next week to talk to the people who had satellites." Today Turner's WTBS...
Newton or a Tom Jones is an almost certain sellout. One of the oddest spectacles in America, in fact, has to be a Tom Jones audience, in which a couple of dozen women, usually attractive and well dressed, throw their panties onto the stage and compete for what appears to be a deep kiss from the male master of the bump and grind. Yet even in Atlantic City only four casinos regularly count on stars to help fill the gaming rooms. Like their counterparts in Vegas, the other five produce their own revues...
...shift began with Hannah Arendt's work on totalitarianism, Shorris says. Arendt argued that totalitarianism is a greater threat to a society undergoing atomization and "massification." Shorris says that totalitarian society was then projected onto the student radicals of the Sixties: "The mob was coming, and it was coming out of the universities that had given the Jews a way up out of the ghetto...
Once upon a time there was probably no cotton-pickin' way to get Sammy Davis Jr., 56, onto the set of a television show like the yahoo repertory Hee Haw. But that was before the onetime freedom marcher ("I was there in Selma") was paid a backstage call by Roy Clark, 49, during a stint in Las Vegas. Next thing he knew Sammy was onstage in Nashville, with Minnie Pearl, 69. Says Davis: "I really felt welcome. We're all family." He even brought along his own wardrobe: six huge diamond rings, two diamond-and-gold bracelets...