Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airport officials suddenly realized that the Auster, trimmed for flight and with a tank full of gas, might cause trouble. Sydney's Civil Aviation authorities were alerted. Radio warnings were broadcast, incoming airliners were warned, while police, firemen, ambulances and air force crash boats stood by. Tens of thousands of Sydneysiders came out to gape with delight as the plane climbed to 6,000 ft. and dipped seaward...
...Cambodia's impetuous young King Norodom Sihanouk entreated his subjects in a surprise broadcast last March, "permit me to leave my gilded cage." With that, he turned over the monarchy's six-tiered parasol to his father, Suramarit. After 14 years on the throne, 32-year-old Sihanouk was convinced that, "If I ever lose this King job, maybe I can go to Hollywood. They like Oriental characters over there, don't they? Maybe I could be a Cambodian Charlie Chan...
...press your satellite masters to come through with the freedoms they have promised farmers, workers and churchgoers. But last week, when President Eisenhower said in Philadelphia that "the domination of captive countries cannot longer be justified by any claim that this is needed for purposes of security," RFE broadcast the speech every hour on the hour for 20 hours...
...French commander of the Casablanca area, General André Franchi, broadcast an appeal for calm. "I am a man who knows and loves the Moroccan soul," he said, "but I have the imperative duty of maintaining order." Franchi ordered his troops to fire if disobeyed, then added: "I ask God to avoid this at all costs...
There are other limitations. Commercial TV will broadcast 52½ hours a week (compared to some 130 hours in the U.S.). The screen must be left blank on Sunday mornings so as not to compete with churchgoing; no Sunday afternoon shows may be aimed at children, because they might entice them away from Sunday school. At 6 every evening will occur the "toddler's truce," an hour of TV silence, so that parents can wring out their moppets and put them to bed. The program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports...