Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late Premier George Papandreou, who had headed a center-left government. Following that incident, several thousand students occupied the prestigious Polytechnic University. Barricaded inside, they chanted "Down with the junta," "Americans out," and "Death to Papadopoulos." They set up a radio transmitter. Despite government jamming efforts, they broadcast pleas to Athenians to launch a general strike and oust the government. One neophyte announcer, his voice shaking with emotion, shouted: "Tonight is our night! Don't be afraid of police! The junta collapses tonight...
...news sources, has certainly not hindered the journalism career she began after her graduation from the Sorbonne in 1957. A specialist in financial and foreign news, she writes for the Associated Press, does a weekly column for the French paper Le Républican Lorrain and a regular Sunday broadcast for Radio Luxembourg...
...Princeton game with something just less than frostbite, there is good news. Next Saturday's contest at Brown has been selected by ABC for telecast as the regional game of the week. The network has pushed kickoff time back ten minutes to 1:20 p.m. because of the broadcast...
...they point out that TV coverage of congressional hearings-such as the Watergate proceedings this summer-has often had great impact on public opinion. They urge the introduction of cameras on the floor of the House and Senate, where at least four times a year the three networks could broadcast prime-time debates on major issues. They balk at a similar electronic invasion of the Supreme Court, but urge that the court's rulings be covered in greater depth...
...book, Cosell's perspective about himself is revealed best by his dead-serious statement that "the one thing that would take me out of broadcast would be the opportunity to serve in the Senate of the United States." Serve--or perform? But maybe this idea isn't so far-fetched. Watch "Monday Night Football" tonight, listen to Cosell, and then consider whether a promise like that might not get him elected...