Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev," said Radio Moscow on tour's eve, "is always on the go, taking journeys, talking to the people." This week in the U.S., on the go, talking to people, Khrushchev will be surrounded by a 100-strong entourage of family, personal staffers, Kremlin bureaucrats and state-trained newsmen that adds up to a composite of not only Khrushchev's interests but Khrushchev's U.S.S.R. Standouts in the entourage...
...that instant, Big Joe's two radio transmitters predictably blacked out under an electrical blanket of ionized air. But a recorder inside kept taping instrument signals until the one-ton capsule recovered its voice, then began transmitting all the data that it had collected in no man's land. Slowing down to 700 m.p.h. in the atmosphere. Big Joe popped a parachute when it reached 50,000 ft., then another at 10,000 ft. It sizzled into the ocean at a gentle 20 m.p.h., 20 min. after takeoff, still beeping its signals. Homing planes quickly zeroed...
Chairman Willi Richter, 64, keynoted: "Owning a radio or TV set or refrigerator or washing machine is today no longer a luxury. It merely corresponds to the level of our civilization." His federation, which has seen its membership fall from 40% of Germany's labor force to about 33% in the last decade, this year was making an easygoing pitch for shorter working hours. But when pink-cheeked Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard appeared at the opening session and voiced a fervent appeal for longer, not shorter, hours, the delegates dutifully applauded and dropped the idea of a resolution...
...Iraq, by sending them some $10 million in cash-boycotted the whole conference. Tunisia stayed away because President Bourguiba insists that the League is still dominated by Egypt's Nasser, and Iraq refused to attend for the same reason. And even as the men in Casablanca talked unity, Radio Baghdad broadcast new testimony that Nasser had backed the army officers who plotted last March's Mosul rising (see below) against Iraq's Premier Kassem-to which Cairo replied by charging that Iraqi pilots shepherd Israeli ships through the Shatt-al-Arab...
...recalls. "Some would bring their guitars, and there would be a lot of singin', playin' and spittin' tobacco juice. It was a real stompin' brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army showman. One day in Paris he met the legendary Belgian-born gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt, then and there decided to become a jazz musician...