Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Felicia R. Clark '52, a participant in New York City's "Call to Action" program, described the overwhelming success of the project, which is designed to inform people of their rights to insist on certain minimum facilities...
...problem is being made worse by the attitude of many of the top players and persons organizing the teams. They seem to be more interested in their own success and glorification than in anything else. Many of these players run the teams more as if they were their own and not the House's. Team captains and athletic secretaries hunt up talented athletes in dining-hall conversations. Cliques of close friends and roomfuls of "House jocks" dominate many teams, especially in House basketball. Meanwhile the spirited boy with less talent is left out. Nobody cares anything about him. He never...
American Corp. of Los Angeles, which owns 30 scattered systems serving 80,000 subscribers; it is followed by TelePrompTer Corp. of New York, whose 16 networks serve 60,000 customers. Their success in the field has already attracted several major corporations: CBS. Warner Bros, and RKO General all own CATV systems, and General Electric and Litton Industries are studying the field. Of the 522 television stations in the U.S., fully half have some interest in cable TV, among them Lady Bird Johnson's KTBC in Austin, Texas. So fast has cable television grown that the inevitable is happening...
...writes a couple of smartingly satiric scenes and puts together some pretty shrewd pacifist repartee. Naval officer proudly: "He was the first dead man on Omaha Beach!" Civilian innocently: "Was there a contest?" But Chayefsky dissipates the main force of his satire by chasing the main chance for commercial success...
...Waugh has decided that his -own time has come to dig up the past and remember. In this reticent, ironic, Quietly elegant first volume of autobiography (he plans two more), Waugh takes his life through school and Oxford, ending on the eve of his first littrary success. He insists that from early Childhood he sensed "another age which 1 instinctively, even then, recognized as Superior to my own." This nostalgia for "the Mid-Victorian ethos" later came to be a fixed theme of Waugh's books-and of his religion, his Tory politics, his testy and forceful prejudices...