Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the Skin. Visiting newsmen at the Cape last week got their basic information on the missile-beat regulars-the half-dozen Florida missile buffs who call themselves bird watchers and profit from their pastime as year-round string correspondents for wire services, magazines, a few dailies and the TV networks. Though Defense Secretary Wilson has long promised to take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches...
...intermission string quartet played "I Could Have Danced All Night," and would have been horrible if the second violin had not been flat...
...around the clock by 15 radio stations (top price: $50 weekly). Now Miller has filmed his first TV keyhole show (which he hopes to sell to WXEX in Richmond, Va.), and will sign a syndication contract with Intermountain Network, Inc., which will add its 57 Western stations to his string in October and, he hopes, boost his total income from $50,000 to $75,000 a year...
...will get under way in Washington, B.C. area in next year if District's commissioners approve. Washington Broadcasting Co., operator of station WOL, plans to string coaxial cable along telephone lines, charge subscribers $8 to $10 a month for first-run movies, operas, Broadway plays, sports events. System is same as one tested in Bartlesville, Okla. (TIME, Sept. 16), and company will need 200,000 subscribers to make profit...
...Honorable Man. As patriarch of the hacienda, Richard King sported a black beard that reached to the second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm...