Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cables (made of copper wire wrapped in plastic foam and an outer layer of aluminum) have been strung past just about half of all the TV homes in the U.S. Cable operators could multiply their audience overnight at minimum expense if someone in each of those homes would pick up the phone and order a hookup. Though most viewers ordering cable do so to see late movies or sports events, or simply to get clearer pictures, programmers are putting together ever more innovative packages of shows that cannot be seen on regular...
...growth by severely restricting the number of signals that cable operators could transmit. The FCC began to ease up in 1972, and last week it took a long further step: the agency's commissioners voted 6 to 1 in favor of a proposal to allow cable operators to pick up signals from as many distant broadcast-TV stations as they wish. Currently, there is in most cities a limit of two-so that a cable operator in Peoria, Ill., say, may show its viewers programs from stations in Chicago and Milwaukee that it thinks may interest them...
Cornman was in on the act with keen stickchecking moves which repeatedly forced Dartmouth turnovers and brought the ball back into Crimson hands. Anne Velie lead Harvard's recovery squad with 15 ground ball pick...
...Actually I wear some of the same clothes in both Annie Hall and Manhattan. I'm still wearing a shirt I wore in Play It Again, Sam on Broadway in 1969." The only true indulgences he allows himself are a cook and driver, as well as a compulsion to pick up dinner checks. His isolation from financial affairs is so complete that he gave his producer-manager, Charles Joffe, the power of attorney to sign all his contracts and even his divorce papers...
OCHS explored current issues to pass on his message, During this period he wrote, "Every newspaper headline is a potential song, and it is the role of an effective songwriter to pick out the material that has the interest, significance and sometimes humor adaptable to music... it never ceases to amaze me how the American people allow the hit parade to hit them over the head with a parade of song after meaningless song about love...