Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times recently, Nixon has been in the uncharacteristic position of actually pursuing the press himself-a minor symptom of his tendency to veer from one extreme to another. Two weeks ago, NBC's Barbara Walters was about to embark on a vacation when she received a call from the White House inviting her to bring down a camera crew for what became a two-hour interview for the Today show. Broadcast last week, the program had Nixon chatting about his wife Pat, American family life and other values. When the interviewer prodded him gently about his "stuffy" image...
...including the fatalistic rhetoric, is by and large a familiar libretto at any Menotti premiere. For he is the owner of one of the most monumental writer's blocks in operatic history. In 1951, for example, he was so desperate to get out of a commissioned job from NBC television that he offered to give back his $5,000 fee. "Nothing doing," said NBC, and Menotti eventually came up with that bright and sturdy Christmas evergreen, Amahl and the Night Visitors. All told, Menotti has been cornered by circumstances enough times to produce a larger number of effective popular...
...Communications Commission if his city was henceforth to be known as "Blip-Blip." William B. Ray, chief of the FCC's broadcast complaints division, jokingly replied that the capital of the state (Raleigh) might be known as "simply 'Blip'-after the English explorer, Sir Walter Blip." NBC officials have instructed their Broadcast Standards Department to watch for any reference to cigarettes that would violate the spirit of the ad ban. "That does not mean you will never see another cigarette smoked on NBC," says a spokesman, "but we will be very careful...
...Laotian border, trying to prevent the North Vietnamese from sweeping across the border into South Vietnam. The units were reported to be engaged in heavy fighting. American helicopters were kept busy flying the South Vietnamese out of their surrounded remaining half-dozen bases in Laos. A correspondent for NBC news described the retreating South Vietnamese as "tired and beaten...
...usual, the maestro's familiar musical gusto is the controlling factor, augmented by the expressive freedom he accorded the BBC first-desk men in their solo work. There is also a certain pervasive ease and serenity not always foud in Toscanini's subsequent recordings with the NBC Symphony...