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...WASHINGTON, WMAL-TV celebrated the lifting of an FCC ban by presenting "Mentalist" Robert L. Friend. In short order, he reduced three giggling university coeds to a trance-like state (a fourth coed continued to giggle and was excused). Hypnotist Friend, who was careful not to beam his big, brown eyes at the television audience,* will not do another hypnotic show, he says, until televiewers "clamor and clamor and clamor...
Birds on the Beam...
...course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan's Airlines Terminal) covers an area as large as Manhattan Island from 42nd Street to the Battery; its 35 all-weather krypton flash approach lights (3,300,000,000 peak beam candlepower) are the brightest ever made by man. Idlewild's ten miles of paved runways (six strips completed, one under construction) will be able eventually to handle upwards of 60 aircraft landings and take-offs an hour...
...result is an electric current which fluctuates rapidly to match the picture. This current is amplified and sent by a radio transmitter to the television receiver, where it controls the strength of a second electron beam in a rather similar tube...
...receiving tube or "kinescope" is a screen of material that glows brightly when electrons are hurled at it As the beam sweeps across the screen, it duplicates in light the picture that the television camera is seeing...