Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That's what this network needs-a little guts." Thus speaks a character in The Commentator, a TV script about a newscaster who runs afoul of his employers by editorializing. The network is a fictitious company called Amalgamated Broadcasting, but there are only three TV networks in the U.S., and perhaps it was unrealistic to expect any of them to broadcast such lines or dramatize such a situation. Last week CBS, which had canceled a broadcast by its own Analyst Eric Sevareid for editorializing (TIME, Feb. 25), canceled the scheduled performance of The Commentator on next week...
...Announcement of the U.S. decision drew a prompt response from the Kremlin. U.S. membership on the military committee, shrilled an Arabic-language broadcast from the Soviet Union, is dangerous to the existence of peace-loving Arab states. It "provides the Pentagon with new opportunities of encouraging Baghdad Pact members to organize various provocations and plots and to interfere with the affairs of Arab countries...
...Special Broadcast (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBC TV and radio). Jerry Lewis emcees movieland's Academy Awards ceremony...
Next day, as Nasser's "Voice of the Arabs" broadcast "Arab Victory!" to the refugee camp and café radios of the Middle East, his general rattled into Gaza with a task force of 72 (including 50 MPs, ten army officers). Sending a liaison officer round to notify General Burns that he would be wanting the police station for his own headquarters, Latif rushed off to press $288 into the hands of Moushref's refugee father. "You all know where the UNEF is going to be," he told reporters, with a wave of his hand toward the Israeli...
...afternoon last week with news and commercials, then gave the time of day: 3:30. A pause followed-for the excellent reason that three young men had burst into the studio waving guns. One of them pointed a pistol at the announcer's head, and the trembling announcer broadcast what he was ordered to say: "Batista is dead!" At the Presidential Palace, fellow rebels stormed in to make the words come true, were soon within one flight of stairs of succeeding...