Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witnesses of the Cultural Revolution that racked China from 1966 to 1969, the evangelistic tone of those words from a Peking radio broadcast last week had an ominous significance. After years of relative moderation, the country seemed on the brink of yet another convulsive turn leftward...
...days last week the entire front page of People's Daily was devoted to a formal announcement of "a mass movement initiated and personally led by our great leader Chairman Mao." "The drums of battle are rolling and the cannons are loudly roaring," echoed a Shanghai broadcast. "The struggle between those who want to go forward and those who want to go backward still exists...
Rising Chorus. As at the start of the Cultural Revolution, the new campaign has been accompanied by a rising chorus of charges against ideological backsliding. Examinations in schools were criticized for being revisionist and favoring the children of cadres and former bourgeois. One radio broadcast from Hunan charged that "class enemies" were "enticing young people to read pornographic books and periodicals" in an effort "to poison the masses...
...process of taking over three major-league profes sional teams, an arena and a radio station to broadcast games, Nick Mileti has put up only $1.2 million himself, and most of that has been borrowed from banks...
...doubt. But W.F.L. President Gary Davidson was wasting no time showing that his new venture was making progress. He announced a television contract to broadcast one game a week starting in July. He also disclosed innovations designed to lure fans with peppier play: an optional two-point conversion, a fifth period to settle ties, kickoffs from the 30-yard line. But the crucial question for now is the identity of the players...