Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, the rebels, or their own whim-knocked out the radio transmitter. When the radio limped back on the air, it was still in government hands. The strongman of Syria's ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, General Mohammed Hafez, who is both Defense Minister and army chief of staff, broadcast that the effort "to disturb the peace" had been crushed. Next day he announced the break in the rules of Syrian-style coups: eight rebel military men and twelve civilians had been executed. Hafez blamed the revolt on Syrian supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who is feuding...
...once. "It wasn't a pleasant thing to do," he says. Now there are auditions at least every two years. Rehearsals are held only two hours a week, but the choir never actually rehearses the entire radio program as it is broadcast. Condie tapes rehearsals, plays them through to himself, and corrects flaws next time around...
Back in Germany after the war, he met a Colonel "Max" of Soviet intelligence, who suggested that he get a job with the Gehlen organization. It proved easy. The motive he gave for becoming a double agent for the Reds seemed like an old propaganda broadcast. "I hate Americans like the plague," he said in court, recalling that after American air raids on Dresden he had sworn, "I shall repay them doubly and triply...
...more, the musicians' enthusiasm for the series seems to be shared by an Italian concert public long uninterested in chamber music. "One of the most original and happily realized formulas of the festival," glowed Rome's II Giornale d'ltalia. The Italian radio network helpfully broadcast most of the chamber music from Spoleto; and a bank manager in Rome, getting wind of an especially good program of quartets, promptly closed his branch and rushed off to the festival matinee with his entire staff...
...mark the anniversary of the first Telstar broadcast, CBS last week presented Town Meeting of the World, bouncing the faces and voices of Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Jean Monnet and Heinrich von Brentano off the orbiting Telstar II. Ike was in Denver, Eden in London, Monnet in Brussels, Brentano in Bonn. Anchor Man Walter Cronkite was in New York...