Word: charlestoning
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...around their sets. As the minutes ticked by, the announcer on News Nob, ten miles from Yucca Flat, Nev., described the scene tensely. Only 15 minutes before H-hour, the picture grew shaky, wobbled, then disappeared. When it came back, there was a new camera angle, this time from Charleston Peak, 57 miles away. Then, at 9:30 a.m. P.S.T., viewers got what they were waiting for: a live telecast of an atomic explosion, the first ever covered on a television network...
...From cameras on News Nob, the signal was beamed to the Atomic Energy Commission's control point a quarter of a mile away, then to a second relay near the top of snow-covered Charleston Peak, about 46 miles farther...
...From Charleston Peak, 140 miles-the longest jump ever attempted-to a relay on unnamed Mt. X. To get 12,000 Ibs. of equipment to the peak, Landsberg borrowed a Marine Corps helicopter, which did the job in just 48 hours...
...overcast over Long Island and headed for New York's big Idlewild International Airport. The plane, a cargo transport, had left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. seven hours before with 13,700 Ibs. of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and lingerie. It had made a routine flight, with fuel stops at Charleston, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C., and despite the murk it seemed about to make an equally routine landing-the ceiling hung at 500 feet and visibility was a mile and a half...
...Seattle was deep in a controversy over fluoridation of its water supply. San Franciscans talked of little but the wildcat transit strike and the resulting traffic snarls, but a little farther south, in Los Angeles, Topic A was Governor Warren's entry into the Wisconsin primary race. In Charleston, S.C., people were indignant about judges who were resigning in order to be renamed to their posts at higher pay, while Indianapolis was swept up in the Hoosier State's annual excitement over the high-school basketball tournament...