Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From one of Nasser's clandestine propaganda stations, calling itself the Jordan People's Radio came this news report to the Arab people last week: "Eisenhower, the old man of the imperialist American dollar, visits his country's surgical hospitals every now and then to undergo some operation or other. This has gone on so long that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump...
Though he won the Croix de guerre fighting for the French in World War II, 37-year-old Mahmoud Harbi is now a fervid admirer of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose radio propaganda urges the Somalis to rise up and expel their colonial masters. Harbi is Somali-land's only Deputy to the French National Assembly, but he campaigned vigorously for a non vote. He dreams of the day when Somalia (a U.N. trusteeship administered by Italy but slated for independence in 1960) and British Somaliland, a protectorate that is also moving toward independence, will join...
...among the younger generation. What direct contacts they had made in missions, schools, and hospitals convinced them that Americans were more informal and easier to converse with than the British, possessing none of the latter's attitude of condescension towards African culture. What they had heard through rumor, newspaper, radio, and the movies convinced them that the U.S. was a place of fabulous wealth, great opportunity, leisure, and few conflicts...
What may become a decisive case in defining freedom of the press was begun by a pretty brunette who said no. The girl: Marie Torre, 34, middle-browed radio and TV columnist of the New York Herald Tribune. A federal court in New York City asked her to name the "CBS spokesman" she quoted as saying that Singer Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." The three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that...
...spur stereo broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission granted permission for FM stations to test stereo "multiplexing," a system that sends the two separate signals over a single radio frequency. New York City's WBAI started to broadcast stereo last week; WRCA-FM will begin next week. Manhattan's two-year-old Madison Fielding Corp. last month put out a multiplex stereo adapter that can be attached to any FM radio, turn it into a stereo set. Price...