Word: toronto
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...then everyone has been too worried about a fight with the TV networks to try again. Last week Paramount Pictures Corp., which has spent more than $8,000,000 to perfect the system since 1951, took its enterprising idea to a more hospitable climate: Canada. Last week in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke,* 1,000 TV-owning families could sit back and see a first-run movie or sports event uninterrupted by commercials. All they had to do was slip $1 in nickels, dimes or quarters into a box and push the button. Among the first shows...
Telemeter set up its own broadcasting station on Toronto's Bloor Street, installed color and video tape transmitting equipment able to serve 100,000 receivers, leased 100 miles of coaxial cable to carry the transmissions. Overall cost: $1,500,000. Unlike the Bartlesville system, which cost a flat $9.50 per month for two channels, the company charged an initial $5 for installing a three-channel Telemeter box that fits any receiver, does not affect other reception. Consumers pay only for what they watch, can store up to $2.50 in the Telemeter...
...Canadians" have settled in the horseshoe). When he left Italy nine years ago, Carpenter Alfonso Frisina had little money and less English, but he barged right into the contracting business; this year Frisina will put up Hamilton's first skyscraper, a 22-story, $4,000,000 office building. Toronto-born Harvey Keith, 55, quit his job as a supermarket supervisor in 1950, borrowed $5,000 to go into real estate, guessed right on the horseshoe's land boom, last year grossed $33 million. Japanese-Canadian Arthur Tateishi, 40, who began building phonographs in his basement after work hours...
...financial and cultural capital of the horseshoe-and of Canada-is sprawling, fast-growing Toronto (metropolitan pop. 1,500,000, second only to Montreal's 1,600,000). One of the continent's genuine boom towns, Toronto encourages light industry; only a handful of factories hire more than 500 men. But more good money than good planning has gone into the horseshoe's erratic growth. While Toronto is a pretty, leafy city, most of the others are depressingly ugly, and Chairman Frederick Gardiner of the Toronto Metropolitan Council warns that by 1975 the area will...
...from high school (his father was a school principal), he found the colleges jammed with returning veterans, turned to clerking in Safeway and Woolworth stores, eventually became a tool buyer for the Hudson Bay Co. department store. When he was appearing in an amateur production of Naughty Marietta, the Toronto Conservatory heard of him, gave him a three-year scholarship. But Vickers, who had a horror of becoming "another run-of-the-mill radio singer," decided after eight years that he would go back into business. "The press always said, Mr. Vickers gave his usual fine performance...