Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Desert Island Discs, a popular BBC radio program that asks celebrities what books and records they would want with them on the proverbial desert island, the questions were put to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 82. No problem with the book. Montgomery unhesitatingly chose his own History of Warfare, emphasizing that its most valuable passages deal with "how we could stop people fighting." That question is now foremost in his mind. Asked to choose his favorite disc, the old soldier could not decide between The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Oh, For the Wings of a Dove...
...Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader charged last week that railroading "is the only industry I know of where a company has made toilet maintenance part of its cost-cutting program." In an angry demand for Government action, Nader continued: "The railroads have tried to make toilets so dirty that people just won't use them. That is just part of the total effort to drive passengers away...
...part of its effort to lift the economic status of blacks, the Nixon Administration has sponsored a controversial program to help them obtain more well-paid jobs in construction. Last week the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and a coalition of legislative conservatives fought and lost a hypocrisy-laden battle in Congress to scuttle the scheme in its infancy...
...losers in the F-15 race suffered a severe blow. Maryland-based Fairchild Hiller Co. (1968 sales: $244 million) saw its hopes of suddenly becoming a major aerospace firm dashed. Bigger North American Rockwell ($2.6 billion) badly needs new business to offset declines in its Apollo program work. The company spent $25 million on its bid, but now layoffs are in prospect...
...past decade, Newman and his father had built P. & R. from a languid coal concern to what Newman calls "one helluva property" in underwear, cowboy boots and steel as well as coal. After the acquisition, Newman kept his office in New York, where he hoped to direct an acquisition program that would turn Northwest into a more prosperous property...