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...dormitories, the University is shutting off hot water at night, putting "restricters" on showers to limit the amount of water used, and watching water temperatures more closely, Norman Goodwin Jr., manager of utilities, said yesterday. said in an interview in The Black Panther...
...constitutes dangerous or suspicious activity, as shown by some of its file cards that have become public. Under the heading of "criminal activities," one card noted that a subject "travels extensively." Another card listed former California State Senator Nathan Holden as an "associate" of a member of the Black Panther Party. The only association was that Holden had once been the landlord of a Black Panther...
Tarlton organized viewers into the Panther Valley Television Co., whose members chipped in to build an antenna on the mountain and string cables from it into their homes. Thus a name that cable still goes by: CATV, for Community Antenna Television...
CATV quickly caught on in other communities where reception was poor. Antenna builders soon noticed that if they made the towers tall enough, they could pull in signals from distant as well as nearby stations, thereby offering viewers greater variety as well as clearer pictures. But the road from Panther Valley to national prominence was long blocked by the FCC. Not until the 1970s did two events combine to broaden the cable audience dramatically: the FCC's first steps toward deregulation and, more important, the coming of satellite transmission. Since 1975, cable programmers (Home Box Office, a subsidiary...
...picketers listened to Bobby Seale, former Black Panther and Oakland, Calif. Mayoral candidate while picketing, and many students attended a memorial service for King and special seminars on topics ranging from the Boer war to the educational system in South Africa...