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...Monday morning phone call from local radio station WGBH woke Nicolaas Bloembergen and his wife, Deli, but it was well worth it. Bloembergen, the interviewer said, had just been awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics--an honor the Gade University Professor later called "recognition for a lifetime of work...
Summer School students can join an eclectic crowd at the Center that includes doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital, staffers from WGBH TV, and even some crusty sea-faring alumni for day sailing, private lessons, and weekly barbeques. "We get quite an interesting social group together down here for the summer," Tarlow says. "Plenty of fun boy-girl stuff and all that...
Already, there have been cutbacks and layoffs at some stations. Boston's WGBH, which produces some of PBS's best programs, such as Nova and World, last year laid off 108 people, almost a quarter of its staff. At KQED in San Francisco, news was dropped altogether when 35 people, 16% of the staff, were...
...from perfect, certainly, but it does accomplish what it was intended to do: provide an alternative to the general dreariness of the commercial networks. If the Reagan budget cuts go through and new money is not found, the system will begin to shrink, and eventually could disappear. Warns WGBH's general manager Henry Becton: "In two years public television could be a pale shadow of what it was-with nothing to replace it." -By Gerald Clarke...
Television's interest grew too. In the early 1970s, PBS began importing BBC science specials, like Nigel Calder's programs on astronomy, physics, the new biology. In 1974, one of the PBS stations, WGBH in Boston, took the plunge with its own Nova series. Now, counting Nova, Sagan's Cosmos, and Miller's Body, PBS is running seven separate science series...