Word: weaverization
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...watch over the Government's city-oriented programs such as urban renewal and commuter transportation, as well as the federal complex of housing agencies. He was slapped down at least partly because Southern Congressmen suspected he was doing it to get Federal Housing and Home Finance Administrator Robert Weaver, a Negro, into the Cabinet. Weaver is still waiting in the wings, although Johnson has not committed himself as to who will occupy the post if it is created. Johnson will probably get this one through eventually...
...LINA WEAVER...
Death Rattle. Weaver's STV, which already has over 6,000 subscribers in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, has been on the air since July, beaming plays, opera, lectures and ball games to clients on a pay-as-you-see basis. Over $22 million had been invested in it before Election Day. Since STV is the most advanced of all pay-TV systems to date, the California vote may have sounded a national death rattle...
...would one day find themselves paying to see shows they now see for nothing. And carrying the argument a bit farther, they also warned that pay TV could become just as commercial as contemporary network television. Once the existing networks had been defeated, the argument went, nothing could stop Weaver's company from introducing commercials into...
...greatest communication innovation of our lifetime must not be denied the people through manipulation by vested interests," cried Weaver, promising to seek redress through the Department of Justice, the FCC and Congress. But meanwhile he was through in California. Last week he shut down operations and will soon remove the special adapter boxes from subscribers' sets. Californians had apparently decided that they just were not going to risk the chance of having to pay to listen...