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...Strung Up. The people like Ernie so fine that they have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual...
Then the bed of the trailer reared slowly upward like the body of a dump truck, carrying the X-13 to a vertical position. It was now hanging by an undernose hook from a short length of cable strung between two movable arms at the top of the vertical trailer bed. Its engine roared louder, and slowly the Vertijet rose, standing on an invisible column of hot racing gases. Its hook now free from the cable, it rose higher. Then it curved gracefully into normal, horizontal flying position and roared away out of sight...
...wake of the record boom has come a spate of new calypso nightclubs, or old nightclubs in calypso dress, most of them in the East. In upper Manhattan a saloonkeeper from County Cork recently had his ceiling strung with fishnet, his mirrors adorned with palm fronds, and proudly announced the conversion of the back room into the Ekim Calypso Dock. Mid-Manhattan's Le Cupidon closed down when calypso became popular, re-draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added...
...Bartlesville scheme neatly bypasses FCC because, instead of the public air, it will use coaxial cable strung on telephone poles to link each set with the broadcast. And instead of alienating the local movie exhibitors, it has enlisted them as partners. The idea originated with Philadelphia's Jerrold Electronics Corp., which pioneered in wiring community antenna systems for towns too remote for ordinary TV signals. The company set out to persuade movie exhibitors that it would "give them a chance to get into the home and compete with TV on its own battleground." The idea appealed to Video Independent...
From this can of worms the comrades strung together a set of agreements preserving, at least for the time, the facade of party unity. By "overwhelming majorities," the U.S. Communists...