Word: blip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once a year, Hollywood tries to kill off TV by driving all gogglebox viewers past he point where boredom becomes catatonia. This year's Oscar awards show succeeded dismally. It was the longest ever televised, and its entertainment value fell somewhere between Jackpot Bowling and the little white blip that appears in the center of the screen after the set has been turned off. Part of the torpor is by now hereditary. What was new was the annual Oscar awards' spectacular morbidity. The night dragged on as a kind of animated obituary, part Beverly Hills and part Forest...
Dribbling Blip. In the heat-charged moments that followed, Idlewild and La Guardia radio crackled away at each other, trying desperately to locate the Connie that had suddenly disappeared from the radarscopes over Staten Island and to identify the strange "unknown plane" that was dribbling as a blip across Brooklyn on the scopes...
...projects: three-dimensional radar, which, unlike present radar that shows only distance and bearing, will also show altitude. The FAA is testing an experimental 3-D radar apparatus, designed by New York's W. L. Maxson Corp., which picks up a target with a supersensitive antenna, shows one blip in the center of the screen for direction and bearing, a second blip on the edge of the screen that is calibrated with concentric rings, each representing 10,000 ft. Thus, the controller knows at a glance whether two planes are at the same altitude and in danger of collision...
...traffic controller hunched over his radarscope one morning last week as he nursed Trans World Airlines' Super Constellation Flight 266 (from Dayton and Columbus) through rain, sleet and snow toward New York's La Guardia Airport. At 10:35 an unexpected blip slid across his scope, and he picked up his microphone to call Flight 266 with unaccustomed urgency...
...Guardia operator watched his screen helplessly, the two blips continued for a second or so on collision course. Then there was one pinpoint where there had been two: the TWA signal had vanished from the radar screen, and the second blip crept on its northeasterly course for eight miles. Then it, too, disappeared...