Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will install the machines and maintain them. To date, A.P. has signed up some 30 C.A.T.V. systems. Whether people will continue to watch, once the novelty has worn off, is a matter of speculation. "C.A.T.V. systems are already using channels for nothing but weather reports," says Fred Strozier, A.P. broadcast-membership executive. "If people will sit and look at a silent weather channel, they will certainly look at a news channel...
Washed-Up Diplomats. Backing up the dailies is the rebel Radio Santo Domingo, which calls Imbert a "hog-jawed monster." Last week it broadcast a false report that Imbert's wife had ducked out to Puerto Rico and was awaiting her husband. "The flight has begun," the commentator chirruped, "and just as in the height of the Trujillo reign, it is the women and children first, and then the murderers of the people." On a more modest level are quippy posters and house organs put out by various political parties, including a rebel sheet that uses as its slogan...
Money Makes Money. Cleveland's Art Modell, 41, a former shipyard worker, parlayed three growth businesses-television, supermarkets and professional sports-into a fortune. He put TV sets in supermarkets, then broadcast special programs for shoppers, and with the profits from commercials bought football's Cleveland Browns, now worth about $10,000,000. Among the many men who have made money from electronics, Greek-born Vessarios Chigas, 43, left a job at Sylvania, set up Boston's Microwave Associates; he now is worth at least a million. Charles Stein, 37, sensed a rich future in convenience foods...
...Spain during the Civil War, Kaltenborn broadcast the first live radio coverage of combat; once, he installed himself in a haystack on the battlefield so that listeners could hear the crackle of gunfire. For 20 days during the Munich crisis in 1938, he scarcely budged from his CBS studio in New York, where he subsisted on onion soup and slept on a cot. He provided running translations of the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini as they came over short wave and analyzed them on the spot. He saw the significance of Munich and warned his audiences accordingly: "Hitler always says...
...information of the world." He joined the Brooklyn Eagle in 1902, but after a few years of reporting, he decided he needed a formal education and went to Harvard. After graduation, he returned to the Eagle, where he gave weekly lectures on current events. On a whim, the Eagle broadcast one of the lectures, and Kaltenborn was launched on a new career...