Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tall, well-dressed man walked into the police station in Middletown, Conn. "I lost two friends by assassination in the past five years," he said. "I want to do everything I can to encourage people to turn in their guns." Then William Manchester, 46, author of The Death of a President, handed over his own .45-cal. automatic pistol to the officer on duty...
Haight-Ashbury, Troy Fleming says, is an idea. People, he says, are trying to spread it all over the country. "Boston is the next place where people are coming together to form a community. From that community will come an idea." He sees the new Boston radio station WBCN and his concerts as two things that will help organize the hip community...
...aware of this situation than Breuer himself, who admits that he would have refused a commission to design Pan Am. But he also recognizes economic imperatives and esthetic realities. With the Pan Am Building, the vistas were gone anyway; the railroad still needed money; and the airspace above the station was still some of the most valuable real estate in Manhattan. Said Breuer after accepting the commission: "My feeling is this space will have to be utilized sooner or later. If so, it is important that it is utilized in a good...
...Artists Television Inc. sued a West Virginia CATV company that had retransmitted to its subscribers several United Artists films and cartoons from three out-of-town channels. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court held 5 to 1 that CATV is free to operate without paying any royalties. Unlike a station or a network, said the court, CATV does not "perform" a copyrighted program, but merely "enhances the viewer's capacity to receive the broadcaster's signals...
...first-run movies, opera or theater from Manhattan and sports events that are blacked out in some communities. All of this would add up to another anathema of the broadcast industry-pay television. But broadcasters know a snow-free screen when they see it. CBS, NBC and such large station groups as Cox, Westinghouse, Time-Life and Storer have all moved into the CATV business. As a consequence, about 30% of the nation's operating cable systems are owned by conventional broadcasters...