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To film the exploding helicopter, the hardest shot of all, the shell of a Viet Nam-vintage Huey chopper was filled with explosives and hoisted aloft on a 220-ft. cable by a larger Chinook. Then it was hung by cables attached to the rock itself. Either the cables were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire and Ice a Mile High | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

GTE hopes to renegotiate the contract, arguing that the equipment is not working only because other contractors had not yet installed the necessary cables. Failing that, GTE and the Iranians are likely to get into a court brawl when the injunction expires. As if to leave no doubt about its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: III Omen | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

As the human race descends into the pit of immorality, your articles can only grease the cables.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Tarlton organized viewers into the Panther Valley Television Co., whose members chipped in to build an antenna on the mountain and string cables from it into their homes. Thus a name that cable still goes by: CATV, for Community Antenna Television.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cable TV: The Lure of Diversity | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Cable operators do face some serious obstacles to further growth. The cost of wiring major cities, where cables cannot be strung from poles but must be run underground, is extremely high (as much as $100,000 a mile). Partly for that reason, Chicago does not yet have a cable system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cable TV: The Lure of Diversity | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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