Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-five Harvard alumni have joined with some 40 other prominent Boston citizens in order to gain control of the still-unassigned Channel Five and give the city some worthwhile commercial television...
Massachusetts Bay Telecasters, Inc., an independent group including several University Faculty members and such well-known Bostonians as Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Pops Symphony, Dom DiMaggio, Red Sox outfielder, and novelist John P. Marquand '15, is competing with five other applicants for Channel Five, the last of the city's three commercial channels...
...Federal Communications Commission will decide who gets the channel after it holds public hearings on the subject. The hearings are expected to begin in Boston in approximately a month...
...Tunnel. Ley leads off with the tunnel under the English Channel. The first proposal (1802) was ahead of its time, but practical. Work began at both ends in about 1880. The English pilot tunnel (6,500 ft. long) had electric lights and hand-drawn cars in which Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria rode on sightseeing trips. Then the British War Office, aided by the London Times, killed the channel tunnel. England, they warned, would be an island no longer; some enemy might grab the tunnel and pour troops through it. By 1884 the British stopped digging, and nothing has been...
...magnet is quiet, snoring softly, but in a ring-shaped vacuum chamber running around inside it, a dangerous, man-made genie throbs and thrashes. Out of an electric arc springs a swarm of protons (hydrogen nuclei). Powerful forces grab them and speed them down a channel toward the great machine. They sail into the chamber, and the magnet steers them in a circular orbit...