Word: channelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WGBH-TV (Channel 2), Boston's existing educational station, will operate WGBX, which will be transmitted on Channel 44 in the Ultra High Frequency range...
Loftily declaiming that "my party calls me," exiled President Juan Bosch returned to Santo Domingo from Puerto Rico two months ago to start what looked like a presidential campaign-though he insisted that he would not be a candidate. He claimed he would "channel the capacity of the people," and huddled with old political cronies. At one huge rally organized by his Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) he demanded the withdrawal of OAS peace-keeping troops, even said the U.S. should pay $1 billion "indemnity" for its part in the OAS intervention.* For all the nationalistic talk, many Dominicans regard Bosch...
Heyns clearly is seeking to channel the radicalism of Berkeley's students into avenues of social protest within the framework of established U.S. institutions. Bettina Aptheker, who candidly puts her faith in revolution, of course resists the channeling-although an irony of her position is that many Berkeley "New Left" students think Communism anachronistic. She has to keep explaining that her party is "in the forefront of social advances," and that other left-wing movements tend to be "too left-so left they're absurd...
...later they often said yeah. When he ran out of papers to buy in Canada, Thomson shifted overseas and bought Edinburgh's venerable Scotsman. He took advertising off the front page and perked up the news coverage. He waded into television, setting up Scotland's first commercial channel. He bought Lord Kemsley's newspaper chain in 1959 and found himself on Fleet Street as the proprietor of the august Sunday Times...
...sophisticated attack on the Rhodesian pound. The pound has been ordered to a kind of Commonwealth Coventry: Rhodesia's $60 million sterling account with the Bank of England has not been frozen, but new exchange controls prevent British businessmen from accepting Rhodesian pounds and force them to channel payments to Rhodesia into special accounts held up at the bank. The London capital market, on which Rhodesia's 2,700 tobacco farmers depend, has been barred to them. A nation whose economy is precariously based on tobacco and sugar exports has lost its two best customers: Britain and neighboring...