Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other units in similar fashion, an unearthly quiet enveloped the snowy front. Earlier, the Chinese Reds had celebrated the settlement of a tentative cease-fire line with a display of military fireworks-red, yellow and green flares. As the fighting dwindled, the Reds, disregarding the usual front-line blackout, built bonfires. Through field glasses, U.N. troops could see them smoking cigarettes, drinking tea, playing volleyball...
Robert Hall, Yale's director of athletics, denied yesterday a news release quoting him as saying there would be a complete blackout of college television in 1952. "I definitely feel," Mr. Hall stated, "that there is a place for television in college football...
Robert A. Hall, director of athletics at Yale, predicted yesterday that there would be a complete television blackout of 1952 college football, if the Justice Department did not rule it illegal...
...stadium at Lexington, Ky., had been sold out. Louisville's station WHAS-TV was ready & willing to telecast the game; University of Kentucky officials were eager to have it televised. But the telecast was banned just the same. Reason: the National Collegiate Athletic Association's experimental blackout, designed to test the effect of TV on football attendance (TIME, June...
Different sorts of games will be broadcast each weekend from September 22 through November 24. On three Saturdays out of these ten, there will be a complete blackout in the area...