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...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...
Cream reached its zenith at a time when most rock records were being overloaded with extramusical paraphernalia. Some of the finest groups like Country Joe, the Stones and the Airplane had sold their souls to the electronic engineers and the gimmick was the thing. Cream never once departed from their musical idealism, never resorted to Sargeant Pepper effects. They leave, as they came, musicians of the highest integrity
...aging Uncle Man'Antônio in Nothingness and the Human Condition gives away all that he has accumulated during an eventful, prosperous life. "He no longer questioned anything - horizon or eternity - peak or zenith. And so he lived, carrying the burden of years, erect, serene, and doing a doing-nothing with all his might, in acceptance of the emptiness, the ever-repeated inconsequence, of his life...
...execution atmosphere enveloped San Francisco as the Republican Party convened to nominate its presidential candidate. Lyndon Johnson was at the zenith of his popularity. The G.O.P. was preparing to counter him with Barry Goldwater, an all-but-certain loser. The economy was booming, taxes were down, the cities were more or less tranquil, and Viet Nam was a relatively far-off rumble...
...Zenith Radio Corp. reported tripled second-quarter earnings on sales that exceeded the previous year's by 40%. Net income rose to $6.3 million from $2.3 million on sales that soared from $111.4 million to $155.5 million. Chairman Joseph S. Wright and President Sam Kaplan said that the gain was due to improved sales in both color and black-and-white television, stereos, portable phonographs and radios...