Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...usually up around 6 to collect the four papers on the front steps, the Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. These he reads with deep concentration, over a pot of coffee, making notes. At 8 he listens to the news broadcast on the radio, and just before 9 Sally drives him to work...
Then, in the small hours of the morning, De Gaulle recorded an appeal to be broadcast at dawn to the rebellious Europeans of Algeria. "This is a bad blow struck at France, in the heart of France," he began. "I have taken leadership of the state to lift up our country . . . I tell you plainly and in all simplicity that if I should fail in my task, the unity, the prestige, the fate of France will be compromised." The broadcast finished, he turned to an aide and asked: "What do you think of it?" Unhappily, the aide replied with...
...Gaulle kept his ministers in line with the cold statement that he "demanded of each a mission of sacrifice." But in Algiers, beyond De Gaulle's reach, General Challe and the civil governor of Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, were steadily giving ground. Three days after the insurrection began, Delouvrier broadcast an appeal to the insurgents assuring them that "if order returns, all may yet be won." Lest anyone miss the implied promise. General Challe followed up with the statement that "the French army is fighting so that Algeria will remain French once...
Bonsal was summoned back from Cuba after Castro, in a TV broadcast last week, accused the U.S. Embassy of collaborating with foes of his government. He also denounced Vice President Richard M. Nixon...
...principal source of material for WBAI is the British Broadcasting Co.'s famed, culture-heavy Third Programme, which rents records of its shows to the foundation for $1 a disk. This week Gilbert and Sullivan fans can hear a BBC D'Oyly Carte broadcast of Patience, and Shakespeareans will hear Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespeare Memorial Theater company do Twelfth Night. Next week WBAI will play a tape, made in Europe last summer at the Bayreuth Festival, of an uncut (close to five hours) performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger...