Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some estimates), some intermediate-range missiles (up to 2,000 miles) and should have an intercontinental missile (3,000 to 6,000 miles) by 1975. Nor does China find it any easier-or perhaps any more desirable-suddenly to turn about its longtime criticism of what a Peking radio broadcast last week called the U.S. "policies of aggression and war of imperialism...
Senator Sam Ervin, the subcommittee chairman, agreed that press freedom could be curtailed "by exorbitant charges on distribution of materials," and suggested the Postal Service should be considered an essential distribution vehicle "just like the air waves for broadcast media." Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson, a member of the House Post Office Committee, believes a public service like the mails should not be allowed to set rates so high as to limit its use. Said Wilson of the Postal Service: "They've gone hog wild." How many other members of Congress agree remains to be seen...
There were also protests about giving 43 of the 87 places to broadcasters. The press secretary replied that "broadcast journalism requires more people." Then it turned out that of the 17 television "technicians" on the list, twelve are actually news executives from the three major networks. It seemed questionable that one vice president or executive producer was needed to supervise the work of each of the twelve network correspondents. It may also be that from the White House viewpoint, the historic journey will provide far more sight and sound than substance. Ziegler told UPl's Helen Thomas: "After...
Loaded down with records and backed by promises of late hour coffee, Kathy, my co-announcer, and I arrived at the station just in time to hear the final score of the hockey game that was being broadcast...
...starting the record and letting it spin until the first note of the song. The record player is then turned off and the record is spun back a quarter turn. Now all I had to do was to remember to switch the record from the studio system to the broadcast system...