Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday evening, after a normal day's schedule including publication of a column attacking the U.S. for its pro-Israel stance and an afternoon meeting with President Anwar Sadat, Heykal returned to his apartment overlooking the Nile and heard on a radio news broadcast that Sadat had removed him from office...
...most of their pension income through a variety of misfortunes: pre-retirement dismissals, company closings or mergers, the collapse of pension funds because of mismanagement. Correspondent Edwin Newman, who was co-author of the script with NBC Producer David Schmerler, noted near the end of the hour-long broadcast that "there are many good" pension plans. But his conclusion was downbeat: "The situation, as we've seen it, is deplorable...
...Nothing and everything," Holmes assured him. "The white rim of Alka-Seltzer around your lips informs me of your gastric distress; the dark circles under your eyes broadcast sleeplessness; the shiny knees of your trousers bespeak prayer in the office...
...describes in Gulag. "What a catharsis that would be for the country!" he exclaimed. "Yet they say not a word, utter no moral judgment on all the executioners, the inquisitors and the informers." Instead, he said, "as soon as the West German radio announced that Gulag would be broadcast for a half-hour daily, they frantically rushed to jam it. Not a single word of this book must penetrate our country. As if they could stop...
...handed an envelope. He opens it and finds two $10 bills. The money-for "taxis and miscellaneous" -comes from CBS, which regularly flies TV reporters to New York to screen new network shows, paying their expenses and tossing in some mad money besides. Even more startling, the scene was broadcast this week by CBS on 60 Minutes, as part of a critical story about press junkets financed by corporations in hopes of favorable coverage...