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Ever since he first loped onstage last fall opposite such formidable opposition as CBS's Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line...
...their search for operatic material, modern composers have been diligently flailing the literary bushes. Three of the latest finds have livened the slack springtime opera season...
...Manhattan itself, which has no educational TV station, NBC's key station WRCA will broadcast kinescopes of the series during slack hours on Saturdays and Sundays. But millions of U.S. viewers are out of range of the educational stations-they will get no benefit from the NBC project, and will have to take hope for the future in the high intentions voiced by commercial broadcasters fortnight ago at a Boston conference on public-service programing, hosted by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Many would agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have...
...cutback will be in "Century Series" supersonic fighters, which currently comprise a big chunk of aircraft production. In the reduction, McDonnell Aircraft will probably make fewer F101 Voodoo fighters than it had hoped, is busy working on a family of supersecret missiles to take up the slack. Lockheed, too, may see some slowdown in orders for its sizzling (upwards of 1,300 m.p.h.) F-104 Starfighter. The Pentagon plans to close out several wings in the Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command, some of which were to be equipped with F-104s. Yet Lockheed denies any cuts in planned...
...valleys of supply and demand will be flattened by "freezing in the round"-a method devised by the Fish and Wildlife Service to enable trawlers to gut and freeze fish at sea, stay out while the fishing is good, thus build up inventories that will tide them over slack periods (the Fulhams' contribution: a method of part-thawing, preparing and refreezing the fish, which they say preserves flavor). They have offered Boston's fishermen substantial loans to modernize the fleet, and plan to revive the Boston whiting fishery, which suffered from seasonal surpluses, by promoting frozen packages...