Word: channelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pablo Casals' cello lessons to Photographer Ernst Haas's presentations on The Art of Seeing, WNDT is so loaded with rewarding material that many people have bought television sets for first time in order not to miss it. In its first three months, New York's Channel 13 has proved itself a 21-in. university teaching everything from Japanese brush painting to elementary Russian...
Died. Major General John Hamilton Roberts, 70, Canadian commander of the controversial 1942 raid on the German-held resort town of Dieppe; of a heart attack on the Channel Island of Jersey. Planned as a "reconnaissance in force," the raid was a tactical disaster (only 2,500 returned out of 6.100 troops, most of them Canadian) but a valuable strategic lesson, proving that open beaches are more assailable than ports and that massive firepower is the key to the beach...
...Paris' Olympia Theater. Wriggling up to the footlights, she gave the full house four songs, including a low and swinging rendition of her smash record I'm Just a Baby that has toted up a sale of more than 500,000 copies on both sides of the Channel...
...Such channels are already scarce, and they will get scarcer still as more and gabbier satellites for communication, navigation and weather watching take to space. Many of the newcomers will have radio transmitters powered by solar cells, and unless they are silenced in some way, like Vanguard they will broadcast long after their original jobs are done. But to shush a satellite and clear its radio channel is not as simple as it sounds. A radio signal could be sent from the ground to tell the satellite to turn itself off, but this would require tying up a standby radio...
...beacon transmitter after 17,700 hours-about two years. Bulova engineers are now working on timers that will turn instruments off and on again automatically. This will permit a satellite to take periodic readings of space conditions over long periods of time without demanding exclusive use of a radio channel...