Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became involved with causes aimed directly at countering Communist propaganda, like Radio Free Europe. There were more intellectual ventures, among them an open $300,000 grant to the M.I.T. Center for International Studies. The agency also helped finance the National Student Association for just over 15 years, until militant N.S.A. leaders denounced the deal in 1967. Dulles said dryly: "We obtained what we wanted." Of the Communists, he said: "We stopped them in certain areas, and the student area was one of them...
...Baghdad. Then their bodies, clad in the red jail uniform of the doomed, were hauled by truck to downtown Liberation Square, where a set of wooden gallows had been hastily constructed to display them. Next morning Baghdadis awoke to martial music and the shrill cries of loudspeakers and radio, urging them to take the day off to view the executed "Israeli spies." For those who could not make the trip, the government ordered the medieval sight broadcast on television...
...POVERTY of the F.T.C.'s performance is strongly argued. The F.T.C. fails to detect many violations because it relies mainly on individual consumer complaints filed with it by mail or by Congressmen. It monitors T.V. and radio advertisements only rarely, and has no ghetto investigative teams. The individuals who are presumably to register complaints often do not know they have been deceived or where they can find redress. Further, only rarely does the F.T.C. challenge large corporations. It prefers to tackle small companies whose practices, less important to consumers, have less political leverage...
...course," he adds ruefully, "there was no TV. We got no radio coverage and no headlines at all." More discouraging than media coverage was the response of other blacks. "They did not have any interest in direct action, civil disobedience, and certainly not nonviolence. Not until 1956, with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, did nonviolence capture the imagination of the press and the world, thanks especially to Dr. King's charismatic leadership...
...father through a Sears, Roebuck catalog sent for one priced at $5. He drew on whatever music was at hand: the hymns he sang in the choir at the Church of Christ, homely folk tunes, country pickin' that he heard at the county fair, and records on the radio-especially Hank Williams and Frank Sinatra. By the age of 14, he was proficient enough to say goodbye to school and begin touring the Southwest, first with an uncle's band, later with his own outfit. Many of the dates were at what he calls "dancin' and fightin...