Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moment of Truth. De Gaulle's immense but simple ambition was to put France's economy "really and basically in order." Explaining his plans in a radio broadcast, he insisted that the only way France could hope to achieve long-term prosperity was on a foundation of vérité et sévèrité. The vérité was to be found in his abolition of scores of cushions, subsidies, favors and discriminations that have concealed the realities of the French economy even from the French themselves...
Holdouts. Batista's lesser cops, in no position to flee, fought on. Radio and television stations chattered out the prowl-car numbers of known killer cops, and the rebels tracked them down. By the next dawn, rebel blockaders had trapped at least four police cars and gunned the occupants dead. Rebels besieged police snipers, fought confused night battles among themselves. For three days and nights, bullets whined in Central Park, in downtown office buildings, in suburban Vedado. An estimated 40 persons died...
Once chosen by a jury including Pianist Artur Rubinstein to play on a radio teenage talent program (Prokofiev. Debussy), Brooklyn-born Neil Sedaka explains his turn from serious music in a flack-flavored burst of prose: "The kids who used to throw rocks at me now roll with me." Sedaka's lyrics, like those of his contemporaries, have the air of frenzied discontent that hooks the teen trade. "Today," says one record executive, "you gotta have Weltschmerz with the beat...
When Marie Torre, radio-TV columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, stood before U.S. Judge Sylvester J. Ryan in November 1957, the court expressed sympathy ("the Joan of Arc of her profession") even while holding her in contempt of court. Last week Judge Ryan was not so generous. "You set a very poor example for your fellow citizens," he said, after Columnist Torre declined once more to share a secret she has kept for two years. The judge ordered her to jail...
...wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left of its radio network by severe retrenchment. Says CBS Radio's President Arthur Hull Hayes: "Ever since 1954, we have been losing money at the rate of a few million dollars a year. But so has every other radio network, some losing more than...