Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because masers can be made that will permit the reception of signals 100 times weaker than the weakest radiation detectable by previous means, the devices have important applications in satellite communications systems, Here masers are used to amplify weak signals broadcast from satellites or bounced off them. Masers may thus one day make possible global TV networks, with television signals transmitted across the oceans by being bounced off satellites...
Thurs., Oct. 12 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Last spring CBS persuaded Dwight D. Eisen hower to record his comments on the presidency, his own years in office, etc. Selections making up three one-hour segments will be broadcast this season, the first to night. The entire twelve-hour footage-some of which Ike will not permit to be broadcast now-will be placed in the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kans...
Briefly, the system used for this (called in technical circles "multiplex stereo") consists of a coded signal combined with the station's regular broadcast. And unscrambler attached to your FM set (called a "multiplex adapter") will allow separation of the two stereo signals, which are then fed through the system as any other source would...
...Gamal Abdel Nasser took to Cairo radio to denounce the revolt. In somber, ragged sentences, he declared: "What happened today is more serious than Suez. Any division in national unity is much more serious than foreign aggression." To "straighten out the situation," as he put it in his broadcast, Nasser ordered his fleet and 2,000 paratroops to take seaport Latakia, started commandeering merchantmen to haul ground troops to Syria, which is seperated from Egypt by Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Suddenly, Nasser changed his mind. He called off the attack just after the first 120 Egyptian paratroops landed. (They surrendered...
...attempt on De Gaulle's life. Two days later, Salan's men bombed the national television station's transmitter near Algiers just before a scheduled program on De Gaulle's tour. As TV screens went blank, the voice of Salan came on (it was obviously broadcast on the TV station's frequency from a nearby clandestine transmitter). "All Algerians should consider themselves mobilized," said Salan. "We must remain vigilant and understand the importance of the Secret Army in Algeria...