Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking advantage of a Radio Moscow broadcast in honor of his 70th birthday, Russian Author Ilya Ehrenburg aimed an oblique swipe at his government's persistent but unadmitted discrimination against Jews. Said Ehrenburg: "I am proud of the fact that I am an ordinary Russian writer. But my passport [for travel inside Russia] states that I am not a Russian but a Jew. As long as even one anti-Semite exists in the world, I shall proudly reply to any question as to my nationality...
...isolated group of officers." According to Haile Selassie, the rebels' own proclamations demanding an end to oppression and poverty amounted to "approval of the program of progress in education, health and social welfare that we have been implementing all the time." His son Crown Prince Asfa Wassan had broadcast for the rebels "at the point of a gun," according to an official communique. To emphasize that he was back in charge, the Emperor ordejred the bullet-riddled corpse of a rebel chieftain hanged in a public square...
...American League last week decided to horn in on the rich market next season with a new team called the Angels. Biggest angel behind the Angels: Horse-Opera Star Gene Autry, 53, who has remained a baseball fan since his semipro playing days back in Oklahoma. Autry plans to broadcast Angel games on his prosperous chain of radio and TV stations, part of the empire (oil, real estate, cattle) he has rounded up as king cowboy...
...committee evidently surprised the New York Times with the vagueness and vacuity of its report. After all, the Times protested, a committee that will not publish what a large number of its members suggested--a recommendation that the Connally Amendment be repealed--is not likely to broadcast anything else of much specific value. Indeed, the committee has produced nearly nothing; its report reads like the speech of a small-town politician who knows very little about the workings of the large affairs of greater men, but who feels obliged to make a few grand-sounding (but actually not very eloquent...
TIME'S INNUENDO ABOUT MURROW'S FAILURE TO APPEAR ELECTION NIGHT IS SLANDEROUS. IS DOUBLE VIRUS PNEUMONIA NOT ENOUGH, OR DOES TIME INSIST ON TERMINAL-STAGE CANCER? MURROW HAS DONE MORE FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM THAN ALL THE REST OF US COMBINED...