Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word "drunk," proclaimed the Moscow radio last week, opening a temperance campaign decreed by Nikita Khrushchev, is "incompatible with the notion of 'Soviet man.' " Another word that seemed to be incompatible with Soviet man was Nobel. For winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Pasternak edged further into the Communist doghouse. A third word bothering the Russians was stilyagi, which means a zoot-suiter who wears narrow trousers, likes rock 'n' roll and hates work. For a report on Russia's three bothersome little words, see FOREIGN NEWS...
Above the harsh noise of Communist China's bold new effort to reduce an entire people to the level of robots (TIME, Oct. 20) came the nightingale song of Radio Peking: "The people's communes are paradises. Manpower and material resources are more than in heaven. Industry and agriculture leap forward together, and one year equals thousands of years in the past...
Murrow's remedy: more and deeper information, more knowing public-affairs programs, more initiative, more ideas, more guts in radio and TV news. "Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey of the state of American education, and a week or two later the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East...
...accomplishment of the Pioneer could be told at once. While it was high in space, the operators on its tracking stations gaily used it as a radio relay, e.g., England talked to Hawaii on the other side of the earth, the waves climbing up to the Pioneer and down again. This dramatized the often discussed possibility of using satellites as relay points for the earth's communications...
Editor Claude-Maxe, 45, a longtime peddler of ideas to newspapers, radio stations and ad agencies, will sell the magazine at newsstands (price: $1.20) instead of record shops, claims each record will play up to 1,000 times. "After years of selling ideas to others," he said, "I've finally sold one to myself...