Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pill Generation, one that finds its art by turning on a knob and adjusting the antenna, and found its spiritual transcendence through a chemical catalyst, has come up with a way to get around its own act of pro-creation...
...first 26 hours, a steady parade of vandals had removed the battery, radiator, air cleaner, radio antenna, windshield wipers, right-hand-side chrome strip, hubcaps, a set of jumper cables, a gas can, a can of car wax, and the left rear tire (the other tires were too worn to be interesting). Nine hours later, random destruction began when two laughing teen-agers tore off the rearview mirror and began throwing it at the headlights and front windshield...
...microwave antenna still towered above the banks of the Pedernales. The house trailers still stood ready for the aides and auxiliaries who attend the Commander in Chief. Secret Service agents were as protective as ever of the man they were assigned to guard. Yet everything, of course, had changed, and the L.B.J. ranch-the seat of power for perhaps a fifth of Lyndon Johnson's 1,887 days as President-was the home of a private citizen...
...assortment of cameras, they shot color and black-and-white movie and still pictures of the lunar landscape and of the distant earth. Firing their 100-lb.-thrust control jets, they continually changed the attitude of the spacecraft so that its four-dish, high-gain TV and radio antenna remained pointed directly at the earth...
Freezing Frames. The effect of Goldmark's system is to free individual TV receivers from the confinement of commercial broadcasting. Under its agreement with CBS, Motorola will produce briefcase-sized player units with wires that clamp onto the antenna terminals of existing TV sets. The viewer can then choose a film cartridge, drop it into the player, and dial an unused channel. The film, which automatically threads and rewinds itself, can carry nearly an hour of black-and-white viewing and can be stopped at any time for either individual "freezes" or to flip the frames through...