Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...telecasts over a single channel to Britain's 450.000 TV sets. Each morning there is an hour-long demonstration film so that TV dealers will have something to show prospective buyers. In the afternoon, there is either a good British or French movie or a women's program containing news of cooking, clothes, music, new books and politics. Creative talent is concentrated in the evening hours when viewers may see ballet, plays of Shakespeare, Shaw or Priestley, or specialized shows like Matters of Life & Death, on which outstanding doctors give detailed explanations of modern medical techniques...
...elected two years ago as one of the six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches. In a recent circular letter, Dr. Chao and such other Christian venerables as Methodist Bishop Z. T. Kuang (who baptized Chiang Kai-shek 20 years ago) attempted to justify the reform program on the grounds that it enabled the church to "energetically participate in the construction of the new China...
...turnabout was caused by an impending worldwide cotton shortage-and the leanest U.S. cotton crop in four years. Bugs, bad weather and the cut in acreage allotments under the support program had slashed the U.S. crop this year to an estimated 9,869,000 bales from 16,128,000 bales in 1949. Brannan hoped that production could be stepped up again to 16 million bales in 1951. But wiping out controls removed only one obstacle; there were plenty more...
...allowed to go to the Houses as went to the Harkness Commons. The only complaint voiced so far about the plan is the amount of extra accounting involved, but as all dining halls are run by a central University department, this objection is not strong enough to block the program...
First year law students will hear a mock trial at 7 p.m. tonight in Langdell Hall of the fictitious case they have been studying for two weeks under the year-old teaching fellow program. Judge Francis J. W. Ford of the Boston Federal District Court, will preside...