Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Equal Partnership." Next morning, in somber mood, Queen Elizabeth II made her own traditional Christmas broadcast to the people of her Commonwealth. In the speech, which this year originated for the first time outside of Britain, she deplored the tendency to compare her reign with that of Elizabeth I. "Frankly, I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forebear, who was blessed with neither husband nor children, who ruled as a despot," she said, "but there is at least one significant resemblance between her age and mine. For her kingdom, small though it may have been...
Programs & Ideas. Among the notable results of Reiner's approach: 1) the demand for tickets and subscriptions is sharply up; 2) the local sponsors of the orchestra's weekly TV broadcast have received more letters in six weeks than they used to get in a season; and 3) prestigious RCA Victor has signed the Chicago orchestra to a record contract for the first time in four years...
...first presidential press conference ever to be broadcast in full, Dwight Eisenhower, permitting direct quotations (see PRESS), last week met or parried questions ranging from atomic energy to parental failure. Where did his U.N. speech idea of pooling fissionable materials for peacetime purposes come from? a newsman asked. The President grinned and reddened self-consciously. Then he admitted, "I think that I originated the idea of a joint contribution to a central bank ..." What about sharing atomic weapons with NATO countries, as reports from Paris had been suggesting? The President implied that he would not, in peacetime, give away atomic...
...into effect that was followed for more than 20 years: newsmen may paraphrase what the President says, but may not quote him directly. Last week the rule was changed. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that all of last week's conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) could be broadcast from the official tape recording. The ruling meant reporters could quote Ike directly in stories...
...voice quavering, wire-maned David Ben-Gurion, 67, delivered his "abdication" address in a radio broadcast to the citizens of Israel. He was convinced that, "in spite of excessive party fragmentation . . . the people of Israel are far more united at heart than many imagine." Then he concluded with a definition of faith, in his version of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: "Righteous man lives by his faith. He will not preach to others, will not act the saint by calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith...