Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drama with Morse's telegraphic message ("What hath God wrought!") and Bell's first telephoned sentence ("Mr. Watson, come here-I want you!''). To many Americans, as they sat by their TV sets, it evoked memories of such remarkable events as the 1930 international radio broadcast of Britain's King George V from the London Naval Conference, and of H. V. Kaltenborn's microphone in a haystack, recording the sounds of the Spanish Civil...
...called off seven times because of weather. Twice the booster rocket had roared off its pad with a great bomb in its nose, only to be destroyed deliberately because of malfunction. But now the countdown had begun again, and Hawaiian radio stations cut regular programs off the air to broadcast its final minutes. Residents hurried to the beaches, and on Diamond Head cars picked out vantage observation posts. Officials even opened the gates at Punchbowl Cemetery to allow crowds to view the shot from its famous concrete observation...
...even sketched a few in his book. Ghosts are plentiful, he believes, because they are natural phenomena. "A ghost, ghoul, or uncanny sound," he writes, "is far more likely to be thought projection from one of your fellow men, still living on earth, than it is to be a broadcast from the outside." In other words, a ghost is simply a television picture, minus the sound, which is transmitted from one person to another...
Five candidates for the United States Senate will meet head-on tonight on the Summer School's first Brattle Street Forum. The Forum will originate in the WGBHTV studios in Cambridge and will be broadcast live an Channel...
WHCT plans to broadcast between 20 and 40 hours of pay programs each week, and the experiment will be closely watched by interested broadcasters and hopeful viewers all over the U.S. There is even something interesting for nonsubscribers in Hartford. If they happen to turn on the channel, they see an attractively patterned, cubist tessellation of arms, torsos, scattered heads and errant thighs. It might well have been borrowed from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...