Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bouillabaisse of hard news, light features and background reports is heard on 200 noncommercial stations. The show is the flagship program of National Public Radio, the aural counterpart of TV's Public Broadcasting Service. It is also the ear-throb of legions of listeners-2 million flip the dial to it at least one day a week, and some 150 send mash notes weekly...
WHRB: 95.3 on your FM dial. From rock to Rachmaninoff to r&b, HRB plays "orgies," hours of the work of almost any artist, and schedules some offbeat programming like "Hillbilly at Harvard...
...York. While the portables are played ostensibly for private enjoyment, the music is freely shared with the world-but not always to applause. Indeed, many captive listeners consider the force-fed entertainment an assault. Whatever else it may be, the new wave of unavoidable music is pervasive-and the dial is rarely turned to bring in even the most important news...
...senators quickly established a telephone code (one ring, then hang up and dial again) to be sure callers were friendly. They refrained from phoning staffs and families for fear their lines were tapped by police. The aides who brought food and drink were required to knock twice in short bursts to identify themselves. No more than half a dozen outsiders knew where they were; even their wives had not been told their location so that they could legitimately profess ignorance to the police...
Wallace takes aim and fires in a recent book titled Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman (Dial; $7.95). Tracing the breakdown of black male-female relationships back to the civil rights struggles of the '60s, she writes: "During the summer of 1964 hundreds of middle-class white women went South to work with the Movement and, in a fair number of cases, to have affairs with black men. Some of the women were pressured into it (anything to avoid the label of being racist), others freely chose...