Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Editor Michael Demarest supervised the Nation section story conference, and Chief of Correspondents Dick Clurman deployed his men. Whatever his area of responsibility, each correspondent was looking for the unexpected lead, for the new dimension in a story so thoroughly covered by TV, radio and the rest of the press. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele and Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil had roving commissions. Washington's Lansing Lamont covered Rockefeller, and Simmons Fentress stayed with Nixon. At Convention Hall and in the Miami Beach hotels, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges stuck close to Candidate Ronald Reagan; Chicago...
...called into Prague for briefings on the conferences. The press, which had been asked by the regime to tone down its anti-Soviet polemics, ran reassuring editorials. "The sovereignty of Czechoslovakia has remained and will remain untouched," wrote Lidová Demokracie, a Prague daily. Dubček, again on radio and TV, spoke to his people. "Fears about any secret deal are unfounded," he declared...
What those instructions are has never been very clear, but Peking press, and radio in a series of lectures, told the people not to worry about puzzling them out. One editorial demanded obedience to the "proletarian headquarters, with Chairman Mao as the leader and Vice Chairman Lin Piao as the deputy leader." Their headquarters is "the one and sole leading center" for the nation. Another directive gave the army authority to deal with recalcitrant Red Guards "according to the laws of the state," reducing them virtually to the status of common criminals and counterrevolutionaries. The writing of posters and publishing...
...youngster in The Bronx, Composer Stanley Silverman was fascinated by the blur of sounds he got from spinning a radio dial. Pop tunes, speeches, symphonies, soap operas-all jostled each other in a way that struck Silverman as symbolic. "I decided," he says, "that life itself is like switching the dial of a radio...
...Zenith Radio Corp. reported tripled second-quarter earnings on sales that exceeded the previous year's by 40%. Net income rose to $6.3 million from $2.3 million on sales that soared from $111.4 million to $155.5 million. Chairman Joseph S. Wright and President Sam Kaplan said that the gain was due to improved sales in both color and black-and-white television, stereos, portable phonographs and radios...