Word: newscasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gyangtse, a large trading center 100 miles southwest of Lhasa, the citizens attacked the Red Chinese garrison. From Phongdo, the force of Khambas and fighting monks pushed toward the capital. At week's end the Communist-run Lhasa radio failed to come on the air with its noonday newscast; more significantly, the radio carrier wave, which indicates a station is operating, could not be detected by monitors. On the snowy roof of the world, in an eerie radio silence, Red Chinese and Tibetan patriots were locked in struggle...
After giving out most of their papers to a news hungry audience the editors were interviewed on NBC's weekend radio show, Monitor, and on a local television newscast from NBC's New York outlet, WRCA. Crimeds also left papers at the New York Harvard and Yale clubs, but were not invited to lunch by either organization...
...opener for the station's five-day-a-week educational curtain raiser is a bilingual newscast by Puerto Rican Newsman Jose Roman. Then Cuban-born, 31-year-old Teacher Clara Barbeito uses household objects and pictures to put across the day's vocabulary list. Listeners hear the words again when Roman closes class with a short, slowly spoken talk in English on how to get jobs in New York, or how to take advantage of the city's rent-control laws, or where to go for an inexpensive outing. Other Ingles encouragers: clips from English training films...
...Angeles, white-thatched Gossipeer Walter Winchell, onetime song-and-dancer in burlesque, grandly confided his ideas for a proposed girlie show (starring W.W.) at a Las Vegas saloon next month. "They'll have three TV cameras in front of me, simulating a newscast, and monitors all over the club so I can be seen on the screen too. I'll close that part of the show with some advance info on the stock market. Then I'll go into a soft shoe with the girls, followed by a hot mambo with one of the girls . . ." The finale...
...Miami, after airing 114 editorials on a newscast since last September, WTVJ happily watched the show's rating more than double. The editorials covered such subjects as obscene literature, pay TV, security at Cape Canaveral. WTVJ and many of its fellow editorializers try to follow these rules: beat the press to the draw, stick to local issues, curb negative blasting in favor of constructive suggestions...