Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book-loving Soviet public, reported Moscow radio proudly, had gobbled up every copy of a new edition of the works of Mark Twain. Included in the twelve-volume set, which will be published over the next three years: unnamed, unspecified "anti-imperialist pamphlets," not found, claimed the broadcast, in the decadent, bourgeois editions published by Twain's countrymen...
...York City Ballet's version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker has become something of a Manhattan institution at Christmas time, and CBS chose it for its only live color broadcast of 1958. Once past the opening scene's heavy-footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline...
...Southern Baptist Formosa Mission had sent a formal protest to the U.S. ambassador on Formosa, Everett F. Drumright. The Chinese pastors of 57 Protestant churches and organizations on Formosa denounced the resolution's "terribly misguided judgment." In a radio broadcast this week, the Rev. Daniel A. Poling, Dutch Reformed editor of the Christian Herald, reported that the leading spokesman for the Protestant missionary and educational groups in Formosa had told him: "Out here, the decision of the Cleveland conference is almost beyond belief ... To us it is betrayal-betrayal of their enslaved, tortured and often martyred fellow Christians...
...broadcast by Havana radio said Castro urged all workers to go back to their jobs. All stores and business establishments in this island nation, closed down since New Year's Day, were told to open their doors...
...more than a day the Atlas stayed too far from the U.S. for further experiments. Then it passed near a tracking station in California, which first tried to extract from it a second broadcast of Eisenhower's voice. The satellite tried to comply, but reception was poor. The station then radioed a signal that told the satellite to record a fresh message. The satellite obeyed, making a tape of a Teletype version of President Eisenhower's message. As it swept eastward at 17,000 m.p.h., a station in Texas gave it the playback signal. Down from space came...