Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith, 27, and Specialist Fifth Class Claude McClure, 25, both of whom had been Communist prisoners for more than two years. The Viet Cong delivered them, well fed and in apparent good health, to a Cambodian border post only a few hours after a V.C. radio station had broadcast that the G.I.s were being released "as a response to the friendly sentiments of the American people against the war in South Viet...
...bloodless coup. No tanks rumbled through the streets, nobody was arrested or shot, no special patrols were dispatched to maintain the peace. Mobutu simply ordered the government radio station in Leopoldville to broadcast his proclamation, then sent a delegation of staff officers over to the presidential palace to ask Kasavubu to start packing, followed that up with a formal letter offering him a permanent seat in the Congolese Senate. "The race for the top is finished," Mobutu declared. "Our political leaders had engaged in a sterile struggle to grab power without consideration for the welfare of the citizens. Political bank...
Espinosa proclaimed himself President, decreed a Christmas bonus for all work ers, and broadcast a call for popular revolt. Santiago's police chief politely invited Espinosa over to the Police Palace for "friendly talks," then unceremoniously tossed him into jail, thus ending the affair...
Cooke's first version of the symphony, which he estimates is about 85% pure Mahler, was played twice over the BBC in 1960, then banned by the composer's widow, the late Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. Three years later, upon hearing a tape of the broadcast, Alma was "so moved" that she approved "performances in any part of the world...
These are the sound stealers at work, a new breed that has cropped up with the advent of high-powered portable tape recorders. For decades, private collectors have made tapes of live performances by recording them off radio broadcasts in their homes. But the best broadcast is never as good as being there in person. Now, like undercover agents, collectors are sneaking their machines into concert halls, theaters, opera houses and nightclubs and taking home more than a memory of an evening's performance. The most popular battery-powered recorder being used is the $375 German-made Uher...