Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven back to the White House, the President had reason to feel happy about the imminent solution of at least one of his minor problems: what to do about the traffic tie-ups that usually accompany his trips around town-and especially along his much-traveled route to and from Washington National Airport. Reason for the tangle: all normal traffic pouring in and out of the main thoroughfares that Ike travels has to be cut off until the presidential motorcade goes by. Ike, himself impatient of transportation delays, has often expressed regrets that other motorists must be inconvenienced...
Some such local hotshots fatten parochial pride for a season or two, then fade away. Only a few of the home-town heroes still look like heroes when the big-time tournaments begin. As tournament time approached last week, there was a good-sized batch of local stars whose talents raised them above purely local acclaim. The standouts made up an odd package of assorted shapes and sizes. Some of them:
Fired? We'll Strike. As the proposal slowly ground through parliamentary machinery, virtually every musician and official of an opera-owning town began to berate the government. In Naples and Milan, the ballet troupes, orchestras and choral singers threatened with fine Italian logic to strike if they were fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down...
Thus newspaper ads last week announced the debut of subscription- television this summer in the growing Oklahoma oil town of Bartlesville (pop: 28,000), 60 miles north of Tulsa. Starting in June, Bartlesville TV families will be able to watch 13 first-run Hollywood films a month on their home sets, free of commercials, at a cost of $9.50, or 73? a movie...
...start, the chain chose Bartlesville, where it will convert one of its three theaters into a subscription-TV studio. The town has a compact pattern of telephone poles, and it gets good TV reception from three commercial stations. Explains Jerrold President Milton J. Shapp: "We wanted to compete with TV rather than come in on the fringe of TV reception." Estimated cost of wiring Bartlesville: $350,000. For the subscriber the monthly $9.50 charge will also cover the cost of connecting a lead-in from the coaxial cable to an unused channel...