Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential for civilian use are communications satellites. How to handle them in the future is a problem so complex that the U.N. subcommittee has shied away from it. By 1969, the Communications Satellite Corp. will have five Early Birds in space, which will enable any single TV broadcast to blanket the globe, and within the next few years some 20 countries will have built stations to tune in on Comsat's broadcasts. Such prophets as RCA's David Sarnoff foresee the day when it will be possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from...
...order to pinpoint the source of the mysterious Scorpio X rays, a group of scientists led by Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, of Cambridge's American Science & Engineering, Inc., lofted a NASA Aerobee rocket 150 miles above the earth-well above the atmospheric blanket that X rays cannot penetrate...
...stealing identification cards and voter registration slips from peasants. The Viet Cong are also reportedly planning to attack polling places on Election Day. The government will be waiting. All police leaves have been canceled, roving patrols and communication networks set up. In Saigon alone, some 13,000 policemen will blanket the city's 559 polling places...
...quick start, McNamara put a boat between himself and Cox at the first mark. "We've lost it," thought Cox. Not quite. Slightly misjudging the tide and wind on his starboard side, McNamara headed straight for the second mark-giving Cox, who had shrewdly angled to windward to blanket McNamara's sails, the chance to skim first around the buoy. Frantically trying to make up lost ground, McNamara and his crew then did the incredible once again. The spinnaker was billowing; then as they jibed, flutter, flutter, there it was, snarled around the headstay. This time it took...
...irony of the air-conditioner uproar is that, however unwanted the sound it makes on the outside, the hiss of air inside is just what the noise doctor ordered. Sound engineers refer to it as "white noise" or "acoustical perfume," and they use it widely, especially in offices, to blanket distracting sounds that spring out of silence into disconcerting acoustical relief. A too-silent Massachusetts Roman Catholic Church put in white noise to preserve the secrets of its confessionals...