Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Nikita Khrushchev got back from his U.S. visit, Moscow's press and radio have been careful to emphasize that their leader was in no way overawed by what he saw in the showcase of Western capitalism. "I did not find a better land than our Russia," said Nikita himself...
Britain's radio telescope at Jodrell Bank followed Lunik III while it was flirting with the moon, but one of Lunik's tracking transmitters (39 mc) had apparently gone dead, and the other one (183 mc) was working erratically. The signal stopped entirely for about four minutes. This break might have indicated the moment when Lunik III briefly dipped behind the edge of the moon, but the Jodrell Bank scientists could not be sure whether it passed ahead, behind or under the moon. Since the far side of the moon was mostly in sunlight, Lunik may have photographed...
What was intensely irritating about the show was its phony air of spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will...
...popular U.S. magazine, the young Colombian spied an ad that roused his dreams. The American correspondence school promised a radio and electronics course, equipment to study with. To raise tuition, the boy's father sold the family house. Off went his precious pesos-and the school was never heard from. In Bogotá, the U.S. consul nodded wearily as the victims denounced the "wicked and harmful" deception...
Despite the backlog of work, the SEC is still expanding its operations. To educate investors to the dangers of phony promotions, the commission has been sending out posters describing the work of boiler-room operators. Now it is preparing 15-and 30-second shorts for radio and TV, warning about stock-market swindlers. Says SEC's Windels: "Fraudulent promoters can do their work so fast that the SEC often cannot stop initial damage. But if the public is warned, then these crooks have far less room to work...