Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heroic Sniff. With such encouragement, the Yemeni dissidents lost no time. Supported by Republican tribesmen called down to San'a from the hills, they moved four tanks into the city's dusty squares, took over the Presidential Palace and, in a matter-of-fact broadcast over the government radio station, announced that Sallal had been removed "from all positions of authority." Not a shot was fired; not a single Yemeni stood up to defend Sallal. In Baghdad, Sallal asked for political asylum, sniffing heroically that "every revolutionary must anticipate obstacles and difficult situations...
Arriving at Manhattan's NBC news studios, leased for the premiere of the Public Broadcast Laboratory (TIME, Nov. 10), Executive Director Av Westin last week found a note left by the regular occupants. "The moneymen of Huntley-Brinkley," the message read, "hope you do-gooders do good. Good luck!" PBL will need some luck; it didn't do so good...
...first show in advance, presumably because they were suspicious of the tone it would take. But most of them were expected back by this week. Fred Friendly, who as TV consultant to the Ford Foundation helped get the project started, confessed that he was "very disappointed" with the first broadcast. But, he added, quite properly: "Wait till next week-that's the great thing about...
...pickets, all members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, are protesting ABC's televised coverage of the Harvard-Princeton football game. The NABET strike against ABC, now in its seventh week, in volves 1500 television workers across the country and is presently under Federal arbitration in Washington...
Meanwhile, an ABC crew was at work setting up broadcast equipment in the stadium's booth. Joe Bush, unit manager of the crew, refused to comment on the strike; but he said that ABC would definitely carry the broadcast...