Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wouldn't "Rearguard" have been a more appropriate title for our satellite project? JOHN JAXON-DEELMAN Los Angeles...
...sleuthing job breeds special techniques. The older film gets, the worse its stench. Says Daniel Jones, chief film scout for NBC's Project 20: "I go into an old film vault like a truffle hound. I go to the cans that smell worst first." Then he dumps water on them against the common risk that the old film may burst spontaneously into flames...
Though Government mimeographs orbited overtime on the Vanguard project, and an uncommon flow of information on firing times and other matters was directed to newsmen, the press itself played no small part in building up for the letdown. Few of the 127 U.S. and foreign reporters who covered the launching gave any strong warning to editors and readers-as briefing officers warned them-that they were there for a test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding...
Juan Basin, build a pipeline and processing plant to deliver 115 million cu. ft. of gas daily to California-bound lines. Cost of project: $26 million...
...backed offscreen, her sign-off kiss floated out individually, so it seemed, to each of her 40 million or so viewers. A veteran of 444 quarter-hour shows and 14 full-hour revues on TV since 1951, Dinah is toiling now at the most ambitious project of her career: 24 live, full-hour color shows for NBC. Her longtime sponsor, Chevrolet, is delighted to pay the $145,000-a-show bill, considers its link with Dinah to be "one of the most enduring love affairs...