Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of Beria's downfall reached the outside world in a dawn broadcast from Radio Moscow, followed by an official Tass announcement. Then the speculations began. PURGE DECIDES POWER BATTLE FOR MALENKOV, headlined the Detroit News; MOLOTOV RISES AS PURGE PERILS MALENKOV, headlined the New York World-Telegram, which later front-paged...
...Office Television, Inc. announced the signing of a five-year contract with Notre Dame, covering all the home football games of the Fighting Irish. The games will be shown over closed-circuit theater TV in 62 cities. Tentative admission price: $1.50. Some Notre Dame basketball games will be similarly broadcast this winter, as will games played by the professional Harlem Globe Trotters over the next six years...
Looking on, the Peking radio betrayed something akin to sympathy for the U.S. predicament. It no longer called Rhee a U.S. puppet, and even for the first time spoke of the U.S. as a democratic nation. Rhee's actions, said Peking in a July 4 broadcast, constitute "an insult to the spirit of independence and democracy of the American people and their ancestor, Washington." If these nosegays are any index, the Reds are as anxious for a truce as ever - perhaps more...
Captain Jan was grilled by British intelligence; he agreed to broadcast behind the Iron Curtain on the BBC's Polish program; then he called a press conference. He told of the famous trip from New York in 1949, when Communist Gerhart Eisler was stowed aboard and delivered to Poland; discussed how he and all aboard were under constant order of a political officer named Peter Szemiel, so that his own duty was "strictly navigational-I was only the driver." He said that 500 officers and men had recently been purged from the Polish merchant navy. He himself had never...
State, the Earl of Home: "When we saw the contempt with which you treated the weather, then Scotland was at your feet." But the Queen was beginning to have qualms. Said Salote in a broadcast to her people: "Much as we have liked to stay in England, I think I must end by saying that we are looking forward to traveling home . . . The English weather has been very nice, and warm, but cold at times." Though it also rains in Tonga, it is always warm...