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Called Eurovision, the international hookup was born in 1950. Individual countries can arrange for transmission of special events. For example, if a championship Italian soccer team goes to play in Britain, the Italian stations can arrange for a telecast, usually send an Italian announcer to provide the on-the-spot commentary...
...foreign scientists, including three dozen Nobel laureates. Pauling was balanced off against Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a distinguished nuclear chemist himself, who declared that "hazards from fallout are limited" and that nuclear tests are needed to lessen the "awful threat" of nuclear war. But the telecast's general tone was one of doom. Intoned Murrow: "There is danger in the continued testing of nuclear weapons. Scientists disagree only as to the degree and depth of the danger...
Wunderkind. While getting ready for his appearance this week on the Steve Allen Show, Ustinov (pronounced Youstinov) did a telecast for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., previewed a TV film on disarmament that he narrated for the U.N., squeezed in three interviews, a picture sitting, a lecture, a testimonial dinner, and a spot of home life in his East Side Manhattan apartment with his wife, Canadian Actress Suzanne Cloutier, and their two children. In between, he also cavorted through eight performances of his Ustinov-written Broadway comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, which was sagging at the box office when...
Saturday's game at Yale will be televised over WBZ-TV, Channel 4, starting at 1:15 p.m., University officials have announced. Thomas D. Bolles, director of athletics, denied published reports that the telecast would be an innovation in the history of the match...
...Airborne took over at Central High, TV also scored a kind of integration feat-between the two major networks. For that morning, CBS's alert News Director John Day, an ex-managing editor (Dayton Daily News, Louisville Courier-Journal), had reserved the only circuit that can carry a telecast out of Little Rock. When NBC's News Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved to be bread cast on the waters...