Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel because of trans portation problems), bottled water (should yippies manage to turn on the Chicago water supply with a lacing of LSD or other hallucinogens), canned rations (one rumor has suggested that food in the hostelries where delegates are staying would be garnished with ground glass), ham radio (no phone service), walkie-talkie (if radio fails), chrysanthemums (for flower power if cornered by militant hippies), first-aid kit, gross of aspirin, and finally, a passepartout, collectively endorsed by A.D.A., Y.I.P., the Geneva Conference, Mayor Daley, the Black Panthers and Interpol, certifying that the bearer is an accredited seeker...
...calls to the capital. The alert was spread by taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously low. At 1:10 a.m., Radio Prague interrupted a program of music to confirm the worst: "Yesterday, on August 20, about 11 p.m., troops of the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic and the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic People's Republic and the Bulgarian People's Republic crossed the frontiers of the Czechoslovak...
Stronger than Tanks. That struggle grew more and more coordinated?and cunning?as the Czechoslovaks mobilized all their resources to baffle, stymie and frustrate their occupiers. The campaign was directed and inspired by radio stations that continued to operate secretly throughout the country?reportedly with transmitters provided by the Czechoslovak army?after the Russians had shut down the regular government transmitters. "We have no weapons, but our contempt is stronger than tanks," proclaimed one such station near Bratislava. The station suggested that its listeners "switch around street signs, take house numbers from the doors, remove nameplates from public buildings...
After the clandestine radio network broadcast the declaration, virtually the entire nation stopped work for one hour at noon the next day. Many joined in solemn demonstrations. About 60 youths linked arms and walked through Wenceslas Square in Prague, asking the crowds to leave the square to the tanks. A deadly hush fell over the square as the people drifted away, clearly unnerving the Russians. Then the city suddenly exploded in noise as drivers in cars leaned on their horns, factory whistles sounded and church bells rang...
...outstanding statesmen. Senators Wayne Morse and Ernest Gruening, for example, fall into this category. President Johnson is an on-and-off friend. Pearson cites as an example of dubious ethics Johnson's service on the Senate Commerce Committee (which oversees the FCC) while his family TV and radio stations in Texas were making him a millionaire. On the other hand, Pearson has been helpful to L.BJ. too-on the assumption that the two men can be useful to each other. In 1964. a life insurance salesman charged that he had been forced to buy advertising on a Johnson...