Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warning to black marketeers all over Russia, excerpts from the trial were broadcast over the state radio net work. Unlike the kangaroo courts of the Stalinist past, however, the proceedings seemed fair enough. State Prosecutor Aleksandr Borodankov went out of his way to point out that the U.S. and Russia had been allies during World War II. Whereas the maximum sentence for such black-market operations is eight years, Borodankov asked only for a five-year term for Wortham, who admitted to three separate transactions, and was willing to let Gilmour (one transaction, no bear) off with...
...ward to a massive 32-ft. cube of highly polished granite. The granite cube will be lifted so that it seems to hover above the ground, and will bear a halftone visage of F.D.R. sandblasted into the stone. The voice of the late President will also be heard, softly broadcast through hidden loudspeakers...
Darts & Lights. Manhattan-based Continental Telephone Supply Co., Inc., a leader in the bug-and anti-bugging business, proudly advertises a postage-stamp-size, transistorized "007 Spy Transmitter" that can pick up whispered conversations and broadcast them to a conventional radio receiver located nearby. The 007 is powered by a tiny nickel-cadmium or mercury battery that will last for 60 hours. Another Continental bug looks like an exact copy of a telephone microphone. But substituted for that mike in a standard telephone, it operates indefinitely on the phone's own current and transmits both sides of any telephone...
Precursor of the new sound, and still its most prized ingredient, is the universally acclaimed jazz and pop-music program, Music USA, that Willis Conover has broadcast on VOA for nearly 13 years. Conover is mobbed whenever he makes personal appearances in Eastern Europe-almost, notes one newsman wryly, as if he were one of the Kennedy brothers. Voice officials rate Conover-and his music-their most powerful opinion molder. As Conover himself puts it: "Jazz tells more about America than any American can realize. It bespeaks vitality, strength, social mobility; it's a free music with...
...East and West, and made his only obeisance to Eastern feelings by promising a federal "rehabilitation program" to aid the 40,000 merchants and bureaucrats of the Eastern Ibo tribe who were driven out of the North by last fall's terrorism. Pleaded Gowon in a nationwide radio broadcast: "Help us in saving this country from falling apart. If we fail, the whole of Africa and the black race will not forgive...