Pay TV grows from shadow to living rooms nationwide
Television Today reports on pay television expanding from a few dozen communities to a potential national impact within three to five years. Promoters, led by TelePrompter's William Bresnan, foresee first run movies and blacked out sports giving way to Broadway plays concerts and Las Vegas shows at home. Experts weigh profitability, viewer willingness, and risks like uncensored content as systems test pricing models and distribution with companies including TheatreVision Chromalloy American and Warner Cable exploring pay TV models and production plans.
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National Cable Television Assn
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Optics Systems Inc
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Geoffrey Nathanson
Trans World
Columbia Pictures
Wild West and Weather Notes Semispeech Draft
Fragmentary text presents jagged terms including Wild Wild West, yoga ENE weather, bats, URSSinier, AO Navy, and a vague 3:00 reference. Several garbled phrases offer no coherent event, person, or place to anchor a clear news item.
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Cost Council Stays Tough On Wage Price Controls
Washington AP The Cost of Living Council plans Phase 4 wage price controls while denying most exemption requests from the day one price freeze. The council reported tough enforcement turning down 14 of 15 exemption petitions, with Maui Meat Co. Hawaii the first approved.
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Official Says Bean Embargo is Temporary
ST LOUIS APY John Tre shave undersecretary of the US department of commerce says the government embargo on exports of soybeans cottonseed and the products is a temporary measure to preserve adequate supplies in the country. He says government is concerned supplies could dip in September a month before fall harvest could replenish stocks and the agriculture department had paid earlier emergency measures to keep soybean meal and cottonseed meal at reasonable levels for livestock.
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Embargo Threat Affects U S Farm Exports
Farmers who use the MEAG as supplements to worn and other grains as feeding stuffs. Tabor said the embargo would ens, U.S. exporters about $300 million. The undersecretary said the government is not considering embargo as on other communities at present, but monitoring the nation’s supplies of corn and other farm products. Record crops are expected this year despite floods and wet weather hindering farming in many sections. Tabor said many more ser es were released this year from the soil bank for planting than last year.
Senate approves 10.1 billion farm monies with no hearings
The Senate approved a 10.1 billion fiscal 1974 farm programs bill without any hearings from the administration or farm leaders. Chairman Gale McGee refused hearings saying the move was retaliation for previous program terminations. Senator Roman Hruska lamented the lack of hearings as unprecedented while McGee warned it could provoke future actions.
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UPI
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Money violations by local McGovern groups
Washington AP reports that offices found most local McGovern campaign committees failed to include written authorization to solicit funds on all literature as required by the 1971 federal election law. While principal committee papers were filed, many committees lacked formal authorizations or proper disclosures in materials.
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Teamsters Jailed In Farm Dispute
In Lamont California twenty five Teamsters allied with the UFWU were arrested during clashes at Kovacevich ranch amid a ongoing jurisdictional dispute with the Teamsters. A three alarm fire at Arvin Grape Growers Association packing shed caused large damage, with officials suggesting arson as a possibility.
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Party Girl Vandy Rice-Davis Claims Ties to Lord Astor
Years ago the party girl asserted she had relations with Lord Astor contrary to defense statements that Astor denied the liaison. The remarks appear amid broader questions about social circles and aristocratic connections in the era.
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Man Seeks Name Change to Fiancee’s Name
In Omaha an AP report says Koby Sloan asked a district court to change his name to Harrap to match his fiancée Laura Har Lop. Sloan, formerly of Hardock Nebraska, filed a handwritten request after a brief consultation claiming the family name should not die with his fiancé.
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Aussies Keep Line on Peking Test Amid France Dispute
Sydney AP report says Australia will not adopt a tougher stance against China than France over nuclear testing. Whitlam's government probes recall of ambassador from Paris after France's hydrogen blast, while ambassador FitzGerald remains in place. Opposition accuses double standards. Trade unions have halted France trade and communications since May in protest. Australia plans no World Court action against China. Paris ignores ruling citing lack of jurisdiction.
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Alen Renoul
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Peking
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Nigel Bowen
Complaint Names Sinatra Gang Beating Alleged
SALT LAKE CITY AP Singer Frank Sinatra is named in an assault and battery complaint filed by Palm Springs area resident Frank d Weinstock. He claims Sinatra and three men pushed and punched him at a Sinatra party in Palm Springs California in May and that a man from Sinatra's group demanded he leave his table.
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Frank Sinatra
Salt Lake
Frank d. Weittstock
Sinatra
Palm Springs
Calif
Weinstock
Bruce E. Coke
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