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...Miniaturized film, as in CBS's Electronic Video Recording (EVR) system, is coiled in cartridges and inserted in a converter unit connected to the antenna terminals of a TV set. The sealed cartridge threads and rewinds itself and is as uncomplicated to operate as a toaster. Each plate-sized cartridge carries 25 minutes of color programming, or, if books are filmed (a page per frame), about 500 average-length novels...
...appears in an ad with a star-spangled crone playing Betsy Ross. "I'm keeping busy," says Betsy. "I've got to get ever so many flags over to the American National Bank for their special holiday offer . . . Made of my best colorfast bunting, too." Gas stations pass out antenna flags with each purchase. In Atlanta, the Winn Dixie supermarkets offer flag pins with each $5 purchase?one to a customer. One Detroit department store is pushing a line of red, white and blue plastic dinner plates called Glory. Some concessionaires, such as the G.I. Joe hot-dog vendors...
...Wilson and Keith Jefferts-had some timely aid: a newly developed telephone transmission device that can convert frequencies in the multibillion-hertz range into more easily detectable radio frequencies of about 100 million hertz. After adapting this device to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 36-ft. dish antenna at Arizona's Kitt Peak, the Bell scientists aimed the radio telescope at the distant Orion Nebula, a region of glowing gases more than 1,600 light-years away, a favorite target of molecule hunters...
There was an almost instant response. As Wilson glanced at the screen of a monitoring oscilloscope, he recalls, he saw "a bump that hadn't been there before." When the antenna was slightly moved, the bump disappeared. The scientists could scarcely believe their eyes. Though the equipment had just been switched on, it was already vigorously responding at 115 billion hertz-the fingerprint of carbon monoxide. The carbon-monoxide signals are, in fact, so strong, Jefferts says, that they almost "jump up and bite you." Any lingering doubts were totally dispelled in the next few nights. Shifting their telescope...
...communications subcommittee favoring traditional broadcasters and John McClellan's copyright subcommittee leaning to the CATV upstarts. The courts seemed to rule one way one week, another the next. President Johnson appointed a task force to study the matter. And the Federal Communications Commission, as usual, put up its antenna and swayed with the wind...