Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cooperated with all kinds of reactionaries, turned against the armed forces and behaved like a party leader of adventurists, fellow travelers, saboteurs and even murderers." With those sharp words, Premier George Papadopoulos, in a ten-minute, nationwide broadcast, last week abolished the monarchy and appointed himself head of the new Greek Republic...
...President's inadvertently provocative speech was broadcast to 250,000 restless young Perónists who had gathered in and around Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. Cámpora's words led to a paroxysm of rioting and looting, during which outgoing President Alejandro Lanusse was spat upon and Antonio Cardinal Caggiano, the 84-year-old primate of Argentina, was jostled when demonstrators rocked...
...inaugural ceremonies at the presidential "Pink House" in the Plaza de Mayo. As a crowd gathered around the car, police opened fire; at least two were killed and 15 injured. Fearful that the street fighting might escalate into full-scale riots, Cámpora issued a statement that was broadcast pleading for "restraint and tranquillity...
...hopes to expand its audience by getting the Advertising Council, which serves as a conduit for public service ads on major broadcast networks, to accept some of its promotions for placement. Despite low salaries, PIC staffers remain enthusiastic about their work. Says Stermer: "It beats hell out of selling soap...
...Ranch. Lady Bird spends much of her time in her comfortable apartment atop the L.B.J. broadcast building overlooking Austin and an endless green vista of plains stretching beyond the city. But home continues to be the L.B.J. Ranch, which still seems filled with Lyndon's presence. There are the three television sets he used to watch the news; the worn lounge chair big enough to accommodate his great frame; the bentwood rockers on the front porch where he and Lady Bird used to watch twilight settle over the river; and a needlepoint pillow inscribed: "This is my ranch...