Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover the day's events as effectively as radio, which not only beats TV on most news but provides more of it. The rest of the answers are more personal: one is what TV hucksters call sex appeal. Murrow is tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and compact (175 lbs.). His saturnine good looks and taut doomsday voice project virile authority. Person to Person, which also displays his urbane charm and ready smile, attracts far more women than men viewers, according to Trendex surveys, and in deference to this finding Person to Person technicians (so far unknown to Murrow...
...Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees. "The services are to be Christian, simply and purely Christian," he wrote at the church's founding. "Except by a violation of compact, the chapel we are erecting can never become exclusively devoted to the forms of any one sect...
...Simons recorded the colors in his notebook (the sun flashed green) and took a urine specimen. By mid-morning the sun had warmed the inside wall of the gondola to 120° F. But the air of the capsule was cooled to 60°-65° by a compact air conditioner...
...Force, the decision was a simple matter of economy. Though the Navaho showed promise (about 2,300 m.p.h. speed, high altitude and 5,000-mile range), it was designed to carry bulky atomic weapons, and it is still years from production. Now with more compact warheads and with better missiles such as the Atlas and Titan ICBMs, which travel at 16,000 m.p.h. coming along more rapidly than expected, the Navaho would probably be obsolete before it ever got into operational use. Instead, the Air Force decided to produce Northrop's pilotless Snark bomber, a much slower (650 m.p.h...
...Station. A television broadcasting station so compact that one man seated at the controls can operate it, showing live action, film or slides or focusing on himself for commercials, was put on sale by Siegler Corp.'s Hallamore Division. The system is designed as well for closed-circuit use in industrial plants and for tie-in with pay-as-you-see television. Price: about...