Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays that followed The Constant Prince (TIME, Oct. 24) were Akropolis and Apocalypsis cum Figuris. Akropolis contains a staggering irony in its title, for it is actually about Auschwitz. The title is an implicit judgment on a civilization that plummets from its zenith to its lowest depths. The inmates of the death camp spend most of the evening dumping each other in and out of wheelbarrows, piecing together homely sections of stovepipe and finally, one by one, entering a crematorium. The playgoer's knowledge that the pipes that the members of the cast have strung about the stage will...
...Mondale and his fellow Pentagon hecklers, the zenith came in August when they fought-and nearly won-the debate against Nixon's ABM system, one item in the total defense budget. The Senate vote was 51-50. Though the Administration carried the day, the warning was sounded. The military, henceforth, would not be able to breeze through its requests for appropriations question-free. The lengthy debate that came to an end in the vote last week bore this out. "Just remember," said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, "this is a bill that used to slip through the Senate in hours...
...David Brinkley will start off NBC's coverage from Cape Kennedy at 6 a.m.,* with ABC's Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman joining in at 7 and CBS, with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra, at 8. The networks will be going all out in presenting the zenith event of the space program, and plan to spend two days in continuous coverage (Sunday, July 20-Monday, July 21), when the descent to the moon's surface is scheduled. A camera in the lunar module will transmit, live, man's first step on the moon, and Astronauts Aldrin...
...gesture was appropriate. The owners of WHCT, RKO General, have lost $6,000,000 on the experiment so far. Other millions have been invested by the developer of the Hartford decoding system, the Zenith Radio Corp. Neither firm expected to make a profit with such a small test market. But both were encouraged enough by the steadfastness of subscribers to continue the experiment. Zenith is working on a more sophisticated decoder with automated billing and has long petitioned the FCC for a go-ahead in other markets. Now, after years of knuckling under to the anti-pay lobby...
Despite the FCC's well-hedged go-ahead, therefore, the future of pay TV is still uncertain, at best. Joseph Wright, board chairman of Zenith Corp., believes that start-up and production of sufficient decoding devices will mean a year's delay between FCC authorization and actual premiere of a new pay channel. And that would be in just one market, perhaps where Zenith maintains its headquarters: the city of Chicago...