Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Charles Whitman began his 96-minute reign of death last week, it was 11:48 a.m. Within five minutes, Austin's TV and radio station KTBC aired the first bulletin on what turned out to be the biggest Texas news story since the Kennedy assassination...
Because the station, owned by Lady Bird Johnson and her daughters, is affiliated with all three major networks, KTBC initially found itself responsible not only to the community but to the nation as well. Seconds after the first bulletin, the station tipped off U.P.I to the story, then readied a brief voice report for the noon CBS-TV newscast. Meanwhile it was rushing crews to the scene. At 12:20, TV News Director Neal Spelce began nearly two hours of live telecasting from near the tower...
...staff worker at Students for a Democratic Society said that they would probably distribute a special bulletin of their New Left Notes dedicated to the problem of what to do about HUAC. "We've been encouraging people to write their Congressmen and ask them to "reevaluate the Pool Bill," the spokesman said...
...coffee tables were littered with fashion magazines and paperbacks -Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Truman Capote's Other Voices', Other Rooms, Ruth Willock's The Night Visitor. Another note on a kitchen bulletin board reiterated a standing order: "Attention. Students are not to allow anyone into the townhouse without the house mother being there." An oversize poster on a bedroom wall proclaimed: "Sleep Well Tonight - Your National Guard Is Awake...
Walk, Don't Run. In crowded Tokyo during the 1964 Olympic Games, a titled British industrial giant cannot find a hotel room. Noticing an APT TO SHARE ad on the embassy bulletin board, he orders his limousine over to the address given and starts one-upping a startled working girl...