Word: telecasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, but had to pretend they were still in the running for appearances' sake. "How could I tell him I'd already lost?" said one lovely contestant about the home-town friend who had stopped by to wish her luck. Then officials in charge of the telecast from Miami Beach pronounced Miss District of Columbia's long blonde hair unphotogenic, demanded that she have it cut and darkened. "I don't want to change what I am," wailed Miss District. She didn't -and finished fifth. After all the illusionists were done, Pat Boone finally...
...background music was perfect: outside the Central Maine Youth Cen ter teen-age carolers chanted The Mickey Mouse March. So was the lighting: to ensure a "perfect" picture for the closed-circuit telecast that carried the action to 257 theaters across the U.S., technicians installed huge klieg lights that sent the temperature at ringside to 100°. Then there was the supporting cast. Spooked by reports that followers of the late Malcolm X planned to avenge their leader's death by assassinating Black Muslim Clay, some 300 Lewiston police, county sheriffs, state troopers, firemen and civil defense workers milled...
DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live telecast of an Easter Vigil service, an ancient Catholic tradition revived in 1951 by Pius XII, now celebrated for the first time in English, from the Church of St. Gregory the Great in Baltimore...
...carefully cultivated images of Miami Beach is the lissome body of a bathing beauty -the finals of one national and one international beauty contest are held there. A different-shaped image is Comedian Jackie Gleason, who last year was persuaded by the resort's superflack, Hank Meyer, to telecast all his shows from there, and is planning to build himself a $100,000 house just north of the Beach. Another image of Miami Beach is that of a grinning fellow with dark glasses and a palm-fringed background urging TV audiences to "Come on down...
...professional football championships. The children know the names and styles of the players they are going to see, for the program has become a modern institution and a red-letter event in the calendar of childhood. It is the Oz Bowl game, CBS's annual telecast of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard...