Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stephen's twelve years ago, at the suggestion of a secretary from a nearby government office. Within a year, attendance at the yellowing sandstone church more than trebled, while collection-plate revenue soared from $6,750 a year to $2,250 a week. The services are also broadcast on 21 radio stations, reaching hundreds of thousands of Australians. Last week a record crowd was on hand at the church as Australian Runner Betty Cuthbert and Yachtsman Bill Northam placed their Olympic gold medals on a table before St. Stephen's pulpit, in Powell's version...
...weakest thing about the prospering U.S. television industry is its broadcast signals. Blocked by mountains, bothered by airplanes, bounced by hills and high buildings, they generate only ghosts on TV screens in many parts of the nation. To remedy this bothersome situation, a controversial industry has grown up across the U.S. Called CATV (for Community Antenna Television), or cable TV, it banishes ghosts and vastly increases TV reception by grabbing the signals of TV stations out of the air with towering antennas, amplifying the signals and piping them into homes by coaxial cables strung on telephone or utility poles. Serving...
...requires, TelePrompTer has filed an application for a franchise to equip any of 625,000 Manhattan households with cable reception. If the idea succeeds in New York, it may spread to other cities. Indeed, cable TV companies optimistically foresee a system in which television will no longer depend on broadcast alone, but will be sent over a microwave-wire combination everywhere...
Naming the Dates. As they dug deeper into the warped world of Frank Gonzales, investigators discovered that he had been bent on suicide and had broadcast the fact far and wide. "Mr. Gonzales had advised both friends and relatives that he would die on either Wednesday, the 6th of May, or Thursday, the 7th of May," said the CAB report. "He referred to his impending death on a daily basis throughout the week preceding the accident...
Homi J. Bhabha. chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, even maintains that the price is right. In a recent broadcast. Bhabha said that less than $21 million would buy a stockpile of 50 atomic bombs; for an additional $10 million, India could build 50 two-megaton H-bombs. Western experts agree with Bhabha's figures...