Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King Jr. will hold his Cambridge press conference at 2:45 p.m. Sunday in Christ Church auditorium, 0 Garden St. The public will not be admitted to his conference, but King will give a public address at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night on Ford Hall Forum, broadcast by WHRB...
Nixon, on the other hand, was a high definition figure, whose features were too stark and hard for television. It was too obvious to the viewer what sort of man Nixon was and this reduced the interest in intensive participation. But if the debates had been broadcast on radio-a medium which requires much less participation than television-Nixon would have won easily...
...Place to Hide. The prediction may not be all that far fetched. A crowd of 41,598 turned out at Yankee Stadium last September to watch Santos of Brazil play an exhibition against Inter of Milan, and 10 million Americans tuned into the Telstar broadcast last July of England's victory over Germany for the World Cup. What's more, soccer should be a natural for TV. Baseball fields are all the wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from...
When the need for reruns runs out, Ampex may be busier than ever. At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago last week, Ampex engineers showed off new gear that promises to greatly expand the versatility of television. Most impressive of the items is a $65,000 combination camera and videotape recorder (VTR) that will enable a single roving newsman to record news events on tape for immediate broadcast. The 50-lb., battery-powered pack can tape up to 20 minutes of black-and-white action on a single reel, does away with the gear-laden truck and crew...
...there is another way, Sagan pointed out. "Every night, as North America swings around, an incredible barrage of radio radiation leaves the Earth, consisting mostly of the rock'n' Roll end of the broadcast spectrum and TV shows. The noise is so terrific that even several tens of light-years away, beings could detect it, and deduce that some low from of life existed here...