Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAMES N. WRIGHT Oklahoma City...
...Growth. Though Zenith helped pioneer the development of radio, it has been inclined in recent years to let others do the costly research and development of new products. It counted on making the same products later-and better. But under Wright's prodding, Zenith has more than doubled its research outlay. One result is a new system for broadcasting stereophonic FM. Anticipating a mass switch by stereo buffs from records to radios, Zenith is preparing to produce a new line of stereo-FM radio receivers...
...test the potentialities of pay TV. Zenith got FCC permission to conduct a three-year test in Hartford, Conn. The experiment has been stalled by lawsuits brought by local theater owners, but Wright hopes to be able to push on with it within nine months. If the Hartford test is successful. Zenith will be in the enviable position of holding patents for the nation's first proven system of over-the-air transmission of pay TV to private homes...
...best essays in the book is Alas, Poor Richard, a sad but enlightening account of Baldwin's unhappy friendship with the late Negro Novelist Richard Wright. Like Wright, Baldwin tried expatriating himself in Paris. After nearly nine years he decided that he could go home again; Paris had taught him that whatever the atmosphere at home, he was irrevocably an American. And of his white fellow expatriates: "They were no more at home in Europe than I was." Unlike Wright, he knew that neither of them would have found Paris "a city of refuge" if they "had not been...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*Two top female golfers -Barbara Romack and Mickey Wright- meet two top male golfers in a no-handicap struggle, conducted on a specially constructed, all par-three-hole course in Las Vegas...