Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket itself was a familiar bird; duplicates had blasted into space many times before. But the payload that the reliable Delta tossed into orbit last week was an astonishing piece of equipment. Built by private industry, fired aloft by the U.S. Government, the Bell Telephone Laboratories' little Telstar satellite (3-ft. diameter) opened a bright new era of long-distance communication. Very-high-frequency radio and TV stations, which are limited to line-of-sight range, suddenly saw their future reach out beyond the horizon, around the curve of the earth...
...Eugene Frank O'Neill, director of Bell's satellite-communications laboratory, reported each move over a loudspeaker. "We haven't got it yet," he said. "It will be soon. A very few minutes." Then came a pause. Said O'Neill: "We've acquired the satellite. This is probably my final report before transmission is attempted...
...voice of Walter L. Brown, a Bell Lab physicist, came over the loudspeaker, "The first two commands, 'A' and 'B,' will come in the next minute. They are orders to the satellite to start transmission." After another pause, Brown said deliberately: "'A' command sent, 'A' command O.K. 'B' command sent, 'B' command O.K. We're beginning to track it. The large horn has it. Signals are entering the horn...
...Bell Telephone, creator of Telstar, favors lower orbits and more of them. Existing rockets, say Bell's men, can lift communications satellites a few thousand miles above the earth, where existing ground apparatus can communicate with them dependably. Telstar, they argue, proved their point last week. But final decision on the kind of satellite to be used will depend on U.S. Government policy and also on foreign governments, which will surely demand voices in any worldwide system of communication. No matter which system is adopted, though, its satellites will be descendants of Bell's granddaddy Telstar...
...parade is not just a parade; it resembles the massed phalanxes that troop past the Communist bigwigs in Red Square, with zest and joy beaming from every brainwashed face. A song is not just a song; thanks to a noisy collection of 211 instruments, among them trombones, double bell euphoniums, bassoons, and glockenspiels. Music Man is a hard-sell blast aimed at the eardrums of a new breed, presumably stereophonic man. Like many a cinemusical extravaganza, Music Man operates on the principle that an audience that is hit hard enough, often enough, can be reduced to a pulp of pleasure...