Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet policymakers had regarded them as "imminent for some time." Peking, preoccupied with its internal "purification" purge, unstoppered the prescription brimstone but pointedly refrained from any specific threat to enter the war or increase its assistance to Hanoi. As for Hanoi, its reaction had a certain surrealistic quality, with broadcasts about "a big victory" and "a glorious feat of arms" in which, it claimed, seven U.S. planes were downed. Actual details of Hanoi's reaction were reported in a down-East country-weekly vein: "Misses Phuc and Due," said one broadcast, "were very busy today going back and forth...
...Apologies. A native of East Prussia (now part of Poland) and a wartime student in a Berlin Jesuit Gymnasium, Barzel soon impressed his fellow Ministers with his command of his portfolio. He broadcast regularly to East Germany and negotiated the first ransom arrangements for East German prisoners. Much of his interest in reunification dates from that time, but his proposals last week served a more immediate purpose as well. They were bannered on Page One of every major West German newspaper and were the topic of furious debate throughout the nation. A reporter in Washington asked Barzel, shortly after...
...minute alarm, sounded over civil defense sirens and broadcast over radio and TV, unquestionably held down the death toll. Most people had time to scurry for refuge. Residents of the luxurious Huntington Park apartment complex found safety in the basement sauna room as the entire second floor was being ripped away. At the Circus Tavern, pool players dove under tables, emerging safely minutes later from ten feet of debris. The legend of Burnett's Mound disappeared into the funnel. "I never did think it was true," said one tearful resident as he picked amidst the rubble of his home...
Grays 10 to hear the election results broadcast by the Harvard Wireless Club...
Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. It is election eve, but most of the attention is focused elsewhere#151;just about every radio in the city is tuned to the broadcast of a baseball game at Crosley Field in the U.S.A., where Juan Marichal is pitching against the Cincinnati Reds. The game is very tense. "If Juan were running for President," a voter sighs, "it would be a landslide." It might, and at least one poiltician knows it. Presidential Candidate Joaquin Balaguer has Juan's cousin, also named Juan Marichal, as a running mate on his ticket...