Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baked to Order. In Melbourne, Australia, Nurse Anne Sutherland, 24, heard a local radio station offer a $280 prize to the first girl reporting there with the same name as an advertised biscuit, rushed to the registry office and changed her name to Honey Graham, collected the bounty...
...more recently the busy strop behind Senator Kenneth Keating's well-honed speeches (TIME, Oct. 5). And Advertising Executive Tom Losee took a leave of absence from his job as vice president of Manhattan's big McCann-Erickson agency to serve as Rocky's top TV-radio consultant...
...Think Big." Motorway madness became the big story of the week. "Drive M-1 for Murder," quipped sardonic Londoners. TV and radio announcers urgently warned drivers against parking on the pavement-or off it either, "until the earth settles...
...legendary Hindu hero so revered that his name became the Sanskrit word for all India, and after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States." Even today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print in an English-language Pakistani newspaper...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went to bed early. Turning on the radio next morning at his desert cottage at Sde Boker, he heard the news at breakfast that he had won another election. Then his campaign manager helicoptered in from Tel Aviv to tell him he had won the biggest triumph of his political career...