Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back from a crescent-shaped driveway, the white Georgian manor sits atop a grassy knoll, its bright red door beckoning in the sunshine of an early Virginia spring. The air is vibrant with the commotion of shrieking children and barking dogs at play beneath budding oaks and hickories. A woman?joking, chiding, cajoling?bustles in and out of the house, chatting with friends who come to visit, taking on an older child at tennis (and winning), carrying a beer to a gardener on the 5˝-acre grounds...
Then her own moment came in Los Angeles. No one who was there will ever forget that it was Ethel, in the first panicky moments after Bobby was shot, who calmly pushed back the surging crowd in the hotel serving kitchen to give him air. Later, as he lay dying, she led a small group of friends and family out onto the roof of Good Samaritan Hospital for a break. Everybody was numb with shock, but Ethel was dry-eyed, her voice was firm, she even managed to laugh...
...Benti, CBS has an undoubted if minor exclusive: he is the nation's only Italian-Irish newscaster who is also a dropout from four Brooklyn high schools. After hitches in the Army and the Air Force, where he got his high school diploma, Benti in 1954 went to Indiana State Teachers' College on the G.I. Bill, later earned his master's at Iowa University...
...readings of poems by Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and a frank talk among eight homo sexuals about their problems and attitudes. The latest and most bitter com plaints were raised early this year after a militant Negro guest on Manhattan's WBAI read an anti-Semitic poem on the air; a black militant on another pro gram said that Hitler "didn't make enough lamp shades" out of Jews...
...flock of waggish personalities who are refreshingly aloof from the slick chat of commercial radio. KPFK Disk Jockey Lew Merkelson, an ex-truck driver who runs Los Angeles' most knowledgeable classical-music program, often invites local enthusiasts to come in and play their favorite records on the air. Newscasters at Pacifica stations report only top stories; at KPFK, they take pride in the fact that they never even mentioned Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding...