Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passions, giving time for cooler thoughts and, for some, colder feet. British and French politicians reconsidered their shows of militancy and, though not excluding the possibility of force, recognized that without further explanations, the world would not be on their side. Sir Anthony Eden made a somber radio-television broadcast to his countrymen. Said Sir Anthony: "This is a matter of life and death to us all. It may be said: Why is it so terrible to nationalize a company? It was done here. That is perfectly true, but it was done ... to our own British industry. Colonel Nasser...
...appointed by the state of Madhya Pradesh charged that Christian mission activity is "part of a uniform world policy to revive Christendom for the re-establishment of Western supremacy, and is not prompted by spiritual motives." Missions in India are, in effect, subversive, according to the report that was broadcast by the All-India Radio. Only Indian citizens, the committee recommended, should be allowed to make converts. Medical missions should be shut down, and no religious literature should be distributed without government approval...
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...classroom activities were broadcast from the Weeks Junior High School, where children voluntarily attend summer school. The televised classes make it possible for education students to observe demonstration classes without crowding into the classrooms themselves. Dr. Robert H. Anderson, chairman of the School of Education's Advisory Committee on Educational TV, explained that although the telecasts will be useful, they probably will not remove altogether the need for actual classroom visits...
Speakers at the Conference generally agreed with Saudek that television leaves much to be desired as an educational medium. Yet they emphasized that, in the words of Edward Stanley of N.B.C., "orthodox education as such is not suited for broadcast to the general American public." Instead of just presenting a daily lesson in the conventional form, "television must illustrate the lesson by adding material that is not ordinarily available in the classroom," according to Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...