Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short of the challenges of civilian life are principal causes for low morale where it is found among reservists. "Our daily routine," fumed Sergeant Robert A. Levy, a District of Columbia Air Guardsman at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, "consists of reading magazines and newspapers, listening to the radio, playing cards, organizing and participating in chess tournaments, visiting the base gymnasium, pitching horseshoes and taking coffee breaks." Levy, who was president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called up, was so angry that he wrote an open letter to the President and Congress. "Never have...
...Scramble. The occasion was almost a national holiday for Cuba, where thousands queued up around bookstores waiting for their free copy of the book and Radio Havana poured out endless plugs for it. Castro practically had his choice of publishers for editions outside Cuba, has already authorized five other publications in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. In the U.S., he gave the nod to the leftist Ramparts magazine, and publication of the diary in Ramparts last week set off a mad scramble among other magazine and paperback houses for republication rights; at week's end, they were still locked...
...Bulgarian Jews to German death camps. The defense plea was a familiar one for postwar Germany: the defendant had not known what was happening in those camps. Defense lawyers summoned Kiesinger on the grounds that if he, as acting chief of the Foreign Ministry's radio-propaganda section at the time, did not know about the camps, then Nazi diplomats who did not have similar access to foreign broadcasts would know even less...
...this gave rise to certain stop-gap measures. Mayor Cavanagh set up a rumor-control service; anyone wishing to check out a story could dial a number for information. A group of businessmen called MUST (Men United for Sane Thought) placed ads in suburban newspapers and on radio and TV, urging their fellow citizens to keep cool and not to buy arms...
...critics. The publisher, complained Columnist Otto Kohler in Der Spiegel, has "satisfied, in a formal sense, the recommendations of the press commission without touching the basis of his political influence." In other words, Springer still controls close to 40% of Germany's newspaper circulation. He also keeps two radio and TV magazines and a sports publication...