Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confident nationwide broadcast on the eve of the referendum, De Gaulle made the choice all the simpler by suggesting that each yes vote would be a personal endorsement for "Le Grand Charles...
When preparations were complete, Zahreddin broadcast an ultimatum ordering "all officers and soldiers of the Aleppo garrison" to be confined to barracks. A Russian-made jet of the Syrian air force dropped two bombs in a futile attempt to knock out the Aleppo transmitter. The announcer hysterically broadcast news of the attack and begged Nasser to send Egyptian paratroops to save the situation. But Cairo replied only that Nasser "heard with grief-stricken heart the report of air operations by the Syrian air force against the people and army of the northern region." Damascus radio blasted the Aleppo officers...
Indonesian guerrillas crept through the dense jungles of Dutch New Guinea last week, and it became clear that Indonesia's President Sukarno was at last going to do more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of widely spaced new landings on New Guinea's coast and Waigeo Island, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops). And by compelling The Hague to ship new troops to the Pacific on the eve of a big debate on New Guinea...
...confusion onstage was loudly reminiscent of a 1961 broadcast during which the BBC startled England with a perform ance of Mobile for Tape and Percussion, identified as the work of young, avant-garde Polish Composer Piotr Zak (TIME, Aug. n). Composer Zak's cacophonous creation lasted twelve minutes and left the London Times complaining desperately: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly be cause of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Zak's Mobile proved to be the handi work of two pranksters...
Good Business. As sponsor, Jersey Standard is shrewdly buying prestige on the cheap. Production costs are minimal. Although the shows are broadcast in so-called prime time, the price is relatively low, since they are not on a network. The artists, attracted by freedom to do what they like, are willing to work for less than their usual fees. Twice before, the same sponsor has been inundated with complimentary mail while sponsoring cultural programs the trade considered commercial dogs: The Play of the Week and the BBC series of Shakespearean histories titled An Age of Kings. "We believe that there...