Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antennas in Bushes. Bugs, the small, easily hidden radio transmitters favored by most supersnoopers, are much safer. Usually they have a battery, a microphone to pick up sound waves, and FM circuitry, and they commonly broadcast on 50-100 megacycles, penetrating walls and other obstructions. Their range may be half a mile or a few feet. The electronic eavesdropper, who may be a blackmailer, a divorce detective or an FBI agent, sets up his ultrasensitive receiver in a rented room or a car parked close enough so that bugged voices come through loud and clear...
...election returns, and families engaged in intramural brawls over who wants what channel. In the middle of Gernsback's new set is the big traditional eye, and flanking it are vertical rows of small, 3-in. screens, as many as are necessary to cover all channels that broadcast in the owner's area. This, more or less, is how it will work...
...hour program, which was first broadcast last September, included exclusive interviews with Speaker of the House John W. McCormack (D-Mass.), Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), and Sen. J. Strom Thurmond D.S.C...
...that Monk gave the Germans his highest blessing: "These cats are with it!" The Swedes were even more hip; Monk played to a Stockholm audience that applauded some of his compositions on the first few bars, as if he were Frank Sinatra singing Night and Day, and Swedish television broadcast the whole concert live. Such European enthusiasm for a breed of cat many Americans still consider weird, if not downright wicked, may seem something of a puzzle. But to jazzmen touring Europe, it is one more proof that the limits of the art at home are more sociological than esthetic...
Tuesday, February 25 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 1,000th broadcast (radio and TV) of this U.S. institution...