Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about feeling as Edison would have if they had rejected the electric light was a joke,Son, and not a whimper. TIME also erred in stating that NBC felt I was not the proper moderator for "Meeting of Minds." NBC offered me 30 minutes elsewhere in the week to broadcast the segment. I rejected the offer...
...quence must come out. After a quick check with still-unnamed NBC superiors, but without a word to Jack Paar, the tape cutters started snipping. When the show went on the air, the Wayside Chapel, the water closet and Narrator Paar were replaced by a news broadcast. But what followed made all other news - even wine, women, and cash for disk jockeys, even the French atomic blast in the Sahara -seem insignificant on Page...
...usually up around 6 to collect the four papers on the front steps, the Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. These he reads with deep concentration, over a pot of coffee, making notes. At 8 he listens to the news broadcast on the radio, and just before 9 Sally drives him to work...
Then, in the small hours of the morning, De Gaulle recorded an appeal to be broadcast at dawn to the rebellious Europeans of Algeria. "This is a bad blow struck at France, in the heart of France," he began. "I have taken leadership of the state to lift up our country . . . I tell you plainly and in all simplicity that if I should fail in my task, the unity, the prestige, the fate of France will be compromised." The broadcast finished, he turned to an aide and asked: "What do you think of it?" Unhappily, the aide replied with...
...Gaulle kept his ministers in line with the cold statement that he "demanded of each a mission of sacrifice." But in Algiers, beyond De Gaulle's reach, General Challe and the civil governor of Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, were steadily giving ground. Three days after the insurrection began, Delouvrier broadcast an appeal to the insurgents assuring them that "if order returns, all may yet be won." Lest anyone miss the implied promise. General Challe followed up with the statement that "the French army is fighting so that Algeria will remain French once...