Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broadcast to the French nation last week. President Charles de Gaulle confidently promised that the Algerian problem "will be thoroughly resolved" by July 1. On that date, he predicted, the Moslem majority will vote for independence in the Algerian referendum and the French army will begin a gradual, three-year withdrawal. Thus France will be freed for a more active role in the world* and, De Gaulle implied, for the task of constitutional reform that would make a strong executive a permanent feature of French life. As for the "last bloody clouds" caused by the terrorism of the Secret Army...
Breaking into a broadcast not long after the takeover, Rita Jacobs said, "We wonder if anybody's listening-we're going broke." People were listening, and their number was multiplying. By last week, WFMT had the largest audience of any FM station in the U.S., an average 800,000 weekly. But more significantly, it is successfully competing with AM. While FM is often thought of as something like a worthy charity or an obscure quarterly magazine, WFMT last year grossed $400,000-more than $80,000 of which was profit...
...evidence and argumentation through which one might "wade," and a public debate pin-pointing the significant considerations for an audience which extends rather beyond the Cambridge-Washington community. The administration has never come before the people with the basis for its decision in anything like the detail-sown broadcast in the matter of the Steel price rise...
...dozen radio stations scattered from coast to coast. Although he is known to his listeners by his last name only ("I hate Seymour"), he corresponds with them incessantly, and has organized a hard core of 500 or so who voluntarily contribute the $150 it costs each week to broadcast two of his Manhattan shows over Station WRFM (a third show is broadcast over WNYC, a municipally owned and supported station). De Koven has resolutely banished all commercial sponsors, buys all the records he uses. He claims-and so far no one has felt the urge to challenge him -that...
Playing Jack Kennedy in the German version was Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who made his reputation as the laissez-faire-dealing architect of Germany's postwar prosperity. Seven weeks ago, as West German televiewers waited for the evening weather broadcast. Erhard's owlish face unexpectedly appeared on their screens. Coldly, the Minister warned that unless labor stopped pressing for higher wages (which went up almost 15% last year) and business stopped boosting prices, German exports might well be priced out of international markets...