Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...present Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization warning program comes nowhere near meeting this "minimum requirement." Many people in U.S. cities do not even hear civil-defense sirens, and very few pay any attention to them. The Conelrad radio-alert plan for using the 640 and 1240 frequencies to broadcast civil-defense information is inadequate because reception in some areas of the U.S. is weak, and because it takes broadcasting stations too long to switch over to the special emergency frequencies...
This year MacLeish wrote another play, The Secret of Freedom, which was printed in the October issue of Esquire. Penned expressly for television, it will be broadcast later this season. This is his first prose play, and it is an avowedly propagandistic piece. It deals with folks-next-door-and-around-the-corner, like Wilder's Our Town but less artfully. Structurally, it flows well. One arresting feature: from time to time as a character speaks he will vanish from the screen and become merely an auditory commentator, while the screen shows film-clips from newsreels and documentaries...
Sometimes the show passes that point. On one sequence during each broadcast. Funt shares his "aggravating" chores with a guest celebrity-Yogi Berra has served as a lost-ball-peddling golf caddy, Jonathan Winters as a customer-baiting complaint-department manager, and Host Godfrey as a gemutlich Good Humor man. As Funt points out: "We try for familiar frustration; anything we do in a complaint office or a tax bureau-we're in velvet...
Lodge's less spectacular shedule calls for a rally and a 10:30 p.m. television broadcast. According to Hugh W. Barber '61, President of Harvard Young Republicans Club, Lodge will speak to HYRC members at 7:45 p.m. in front of the Hotel Somerset, where he is staying...
...help out his ticket, the President announced in Palm Springs later that he was "going into the political field Nov. 2." Ike's entrance: a motorcade into Manhattan with Nixon and Lodge, followed by a party rally at the New York Coliseum, a nationwide TV broadcast...