Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MISS TEENAGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). The winner will be chosen from 64 finalists, culminating six months of competition among teen-agers in more than 60 major U.S. cities. Jimmy Durante, Jane Powell and Dean Jones preside over the annual festivities broadcast from Dallas...
That ragged orphan, public television,* has got a new pair of shoes. The Ford Foundation went on camera this week with the Public Broadcast Laboratory (PBL), a $10 million, two-hour Sunday-night experimental series aimed at proving that noncommercial television can be worth watching. And in Washington, President Johnson had on his desk, ready for signature, the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. It provides the first federal subsidy for TV programming, to be administered by a 15-man Public Television Corporation...
...Syrians are a different breed. "They are not like human beings," contends Nadav. Early in the Syrian campaign, he relates, but after one of the numerous U.N. agreements on a cease-fire, the Syrians lynched two Israeli pilots on the streets of Damascus, then broadcast the hangings over Damascus T.V. so the Israelis could share the spectacle. In retaliation, the Israeli air force demolished the T.V. station. The Syrians charged a cease-fire violation. In Nadav's eyes, it was only justice...
...there is always the officers' club, where one of the favorite drinks is a MIG-21, a paralyzing concoction consisting of three jiggers of Scotch and one jigger of Drambuie on the rocks. Some base areas have their own bowling alleys, miniature-golf courses and radio stations that broadcast American pop music. Between their briefings, missions and postflight critiques, however, many pilots are often too busy or too tired to care much about recreation. The schedule is so hectic, in fact, that the Ubon officers' club feels compelled to post a sign each week reading: "Today is Sunday...
...frantic call to arms, broadcast by Radio Biafra, thundered across Nigeria's secessionist Eastern Region last week like the throb of primitive war drums. It was directed at Biafra's Ibo tribesmen, who set up an independent country to escape persecution, but few were in a mood to heed its challenge. Four months after Rebel Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu declared Biafra's independence, federal troops under Major General Yakubu Gowon slashed deep into Ibo territory, rained shells down on the Biafran capital of Enugu and sent frightened Biafran soldiers and civilians fleeing by the hundreds. The fall...