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White authorities feared that me Durban strikes would spread to other cities and particularly to the economically vital minefields, where the average white worker earns $475 a month and the average black receives $30. "The cry to raise wages is not peculiar to Durban," said Drake Koka, general secretary of the Black Allied Workers Union, calling for a "total overhaul of the South African labor system...
...idea might charitably be called the brainchild of Los Angeles-based Program Director Bill Drake, who runs the action for RKO's 14 powerful pop-music stations. The concept is founded on the premise that the average radio audience changes every 30 minutes. Thus the notion is to keep repeating?over and over and over again?the same monster items that everyone wants to hear. In fact, Top 40 is an illusory designation; 25 is more like it. "Getting a record into air play," says Kal Rudman, publisher of an East Coast record tip sheet, "is tougher than getting...
...BETH DRAKE...
...scripts. The BBC people refused to yield theirs. "Extraordinary," commented Charles Wheeler, BBC'S chief American correspondent, as he examined the document. "How do you Americans say it? Really a screw-up." Republican Committee Staffer Kit Wisdom tried to grab the pages from Wheeler, then from Christopher Drake, a radio correspondent. "Naughty, naughty," Drake admonished her, clutching the document to his narrow chest. "Naughty, naughty, naughty." Half an hour later, Wheeler beamed his message to Europe: "Here is the script for today, complete with pauses for cheers and applause. The nomination of Richard Nixon begins at 10:05. Then...
...first yacht in 1953 and in 1960 won the first transatlantic solo yacht race. After his historic trip round the world, the first made with just one landfall, Chichester was given a hero's welcome in his native Plymouth and knighted with the sword of Sir Francis Drake. Despite age and ill health, he attempted to make his fifth solo Atlantic crossing two months ago, but had to turn back...