Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From all the sparkling gems you distribute so generously week after week in your publication, the column "Dear Comrade" [June 6] is the Kohinoor! The Voice of America should broadcast it-not one time, but again and again, in all languages, so that people all over the world know what the Bulganins and the Khrushchevs and the Molotovs and all the other Kremlinitwits and Moscowards had to say about "Dear Comrade" Tito before they went to Canossa...
Such weather wisdom warns of tornado conditions only an hour ahead at best; usually much less. This is not time enough to broadcast an alarm to people who spend little time in the open and so cannot watch the sky. For such potential victims, the U.S. Weather Bureau, with a big assist from the Air Force, has developed a system that warns of tornadoes two to four hours ahead...
...home in Udall, Lester Sweet turned on his TV set to catch the weather report: tornado warnings had been broadcast all day, and he was "deathly afraid." He heard an all-clear at 10:20 p.m. and was just settling into bed when the house cracked open. "We're in for it," he yelled to the wife, pushing her and the children under the bed. "We could hardly breathe with the vacuum and the dust," he said later. "It was like being in an echo box, with everybody yelling so loud you couldn't hear...
...ease tension in the Formosa area," said Communist Chou En-lai in a speech broadcast from Peking last week, "the-Chinese Government is willing to sit down and enter into negotiations with the U.S. Government . . . The Chinese people have two possible means to liberate Formosa, namely by war or by peaceful means. The Chinese people are willing to strive for the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means, so far as it is possible." This was substantially what Communist Chou had said after Bandung last month and, with its familiar qualifying clauses, seemed hardly calculated to advance the chances...
Propaganda Points. The same day, in London, Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission Subcommittee meeting there, spelled out in long-prepared detail how the Soviet Union would end the cold war. He did so without furnishing his fellow negotiators with translations, but Radio Moscow promptly broadcast the message in English, indicating that the Kremlin had intended the idea primarily for propaganda, not negotiation...