Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday, May 2 EARLY BIRD SATELLITE BROADCAST (ABC, CBS, NBC, 1-2 p.m.). A three-network pool presentation of the first transatlantic television exchanges via Comsat Corp.'s new private-enterprise satellite, orbiting synchronously with the earth 22,242 miles above the South Atlantic...
...girl corps of the fairest drum-majorettes in a city renowned for them (having produced eight national winners since 1955), sandwiched between sixteen marching bands (especially flown in for the occasion from Bancouver) playing the works of John Sousa and Edward Elgar while live television cameras broadcast the parade across the nation and beamed it to Europe via Telstar...
...Monday evening, the regular news broadcast was 35 minutes late, and the time was filled with soft music. Then came the announcement: Ben Bella had personally commuted the death sentences of Ait Ahmed and Si Moussa to life imprisonment. Both men will probably be sent deep into the Sahara where they can keep company with former Premier Ferhat Abbas, former Justice Minister Amar Bentoumi, and several former deputies, including Abderrahmane Fares, ex-President of the provisional executive government. In Algeria, the revolution does not devour its children; it merely buries them in the desert...
...swarmed around him. Even after the 15 justices had taken their places and the prosecuting attorney started droning through the 417-page indictment, P.J. continued to whisper to newsmen, who had not been allowed to interview him since his return. Among other courtroom comments, some of which were broadcast live on nationwide TV, the unchastened ex-dictator declared with heavy sarcasm: "I am most satisfied with this democratic regime that affords so many guarantees such as getting killed in the streets, personal and collective insecurity, sacking the nation's treasury, and mortgaging the country...
...engage many--whose opposition until now has not extended beyond dinner conversation--in a constructive movement to end the war. Those who are making the trip to Washington deserve the full encouragement of all who oppose the present conduct of the war. If the march serves only to broadcast disagreement with the Administration, it will be justified, for opposition by silence constitutes no opposition...