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...quiet Friday afternoon at Entebbe airport, near Kampala. A couple of dozen Americans who work for Uganda Airlines either were enjoying an afternoon nap on a hot and humid day, or were out on the golf course. Two of them-Bob Coder, from Florida, and his wife Virginia-strolled out the front door of the Lake Victoria Hotel and there, to their surprise, was President Field Marshal Dr. Idi Amin Dada. Two British newspaper colleagues were with the President, who was plainly keen to show both us and President Jimmy Carter that Americans living in Uganda are in no danger...
...formed. In their current prototype, the Westinghouse engineers form images by using an external switching device to feed signals to the appropriate intersections. But they are already working on an integrated switching device that could be imprinted directly onto two edges of the screen. With another chip (containing a "coder" to control the switching device) clamped to the screen, the entire TV could be contained in one thin package...
GENERAL Electric has decided that CBS's newly patented color-telecasting camera (the "Chroma-coder") is so good that it has made a deal with CBS to manufacture it under license. The deal points up CBS's fast progress in compatible electronic color since the failure of its mechanical spinning disk system...
...WINDS OF FEAR-Hodding Coder -Farrar & Rinehart...
...martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city hall steps (immediately after their release from jail) by 14 kidnappers, allegedly Klansmen, to a secluded spot where they were flogged with ropes and left bound & bleeding. Neither victim was again heard of. Haled before District Judge Grover Adams to tell the source...