Word: av
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible for a hiker to hit the trail without lunging and stooping with the weight of an old-style canvas rucksack on a wooden frame. Now he can sport a rip-proof nylon bag and an aluminum or magnesium carrier, which -j have shaved down the weight of an av! erage unloaded pack from 12 Ibs. to 2 Ibs. In addition, the pack frame is orthopedically contoured to distribute the weight of the load along the bones that can bear it best. This type of pack costs around $50 and is usually the first item, after his hiking boots...
...networks does occur, it is usually inadvertent, caused occasionally by incompetence but primarily by the shortage of air time. The entire text of Walter Cronkite's nightly newscast would fill but two-thirds of the front page of the New York Times. "Television news," says ABC Executive Producer Av Westin, "is an illustrated headline service. I know what we have to leave out, and if people do not read newspapers, newsmagazines and books, they are desperately uninformed...
This, the taking of the equipment to the people, has been the means and content of much of the programming to come out of these three groups. Using a common technological base-the porta-pak of the Sony AV series with half-inch black and white rapes-as almost all people who are active in the alternate television movement do, the People's Video Theatre has been loading their equipment in mobile vans and going out in the streets to fulfill the six objectives they cite in Radical Software...