Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dreaming is over." And the songs on the album include "Strawberry Fields Forever" ("I buried Paul") and "I Am the Walrus." The latter song ends with a quote from King Lear- "Is he dead? Sit you down, father, rest you" -and includes, according to LaBour, "the radio broadcast that never took place announcing Paul's death to the world...
Harvard will be one of the teams featured in a CBS-TV broadcast, "Football: 100 Years Old and Still Kicking." at 10 p.m. tonight...
...speak: "I am happy to report that after the recent nuclear misunderstanding, peace has finally been restored. This, we are proud to say, was the shortest war in the history of the world. It took two minutes and 28 seconds, including the signing of the treaty." After the broadcast, the surgeon casually inquires of a patient, "Who was the enemy?" "I haven't the least idea," comes the slightly startled reply...
...Observatory. During each of its 15 daily orbits, the satellite records its observations on a 100 minute long tape. When it passes over a tracking station, the ground controller orders the satellite to replay the entire tape in about five minutes. The tracking station then relays the broadcast to Goddard which sends the data to the duty scientist at 60 Garden Street through a special teletype machine. Tracking stations also ship magnetic tapes of each transmission a week later, and these tapes are eventually analyzed by computers here...
Claiming that he could not read the dismissal order without his glasses, he sent a secretary out of the room on the pretext of fetching them. The secretary promptly telephoned the local radio station, and while most Cipolenos were at their midday meal, they heard a broadcast describing the "reprehensible outrage." Quickly they rallied to support Salto, an obstetrician who since 1963 had vastly improved the city's school, water and sewer systems, set up neighborhood medical dispensaries and won wide popularity...