Word: broadcasts
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...with a St. Petersburg touch to his accent. As he tells it, when he was 16 and already conducting the Russian Imperial Symphony, the charmed Rasputin pressed gifts upon him. At 42, as a Hollywood musical director, he persuaded Leopold Stokowski to make his first motion picture (The Big Broadcast of 1937). Even the U.S. Government capitulated to his charm. During Boris' twelve-year stint as an undercover man keeping tabs on Soviet spies, bemused FBI men referred to him as their "special special agent." Last week, with the Soble spy ring (TIME, Aug. 19) cracked as a result...
...night after Syrian army leaders came home from Moscow with a promise of $100 million in arms, the Syrian army intelligence service broadcast a fantastic "communique" from Damascus. "O people!" it said, "a mean imperialist plot" has just been discovered. At least three members of the U.S. embassy staff in Syria were said to be involved. "At the helm of the conspiracy," said the Damascus radio, was Second Secretary Howard Stone, "a most skillful expert" who had "hatched" plots before in the Sudan, Iran, Guatemala. Only the day before, said the communique, "this Stone" had set up meetings in Damascus...
...throne for a while after Tunisia got its independence. But Tunisia's modern-minded new Premier, Habib Bourguiba, 54, was obviously not going to tolerate the antique dynasty for long. Gradually the Premier cut down on the royal prerogatives. Two weeks ago, Bourguiba announced in a weekly broadcast: "The hour of reckoning will come. The country cannot continue to suffer evil in high places...
...daily newspaper and 41 million homes have TV. but "radio has long since surpassed both figures." Further, when asked how they would prefer to get news if they had only 15 minutes to spare, newspaper readers plumped 3 to 1 in favor of radio and TV because, most said, "broadcast news is more understandable...
...FCCommissioner since 1953. A West Virginian born and educated (West Virginia University, '31), Lawyer Ford first went to work for FCC in 1947 after a stint at the Office of Price Administration, within six years worked up from hearing commissioner to chief of the hearing division of the Broadcast Bureau, before shifting to the Justice Department in 1953, where he became first assistant to the Deputy Attorney General...