Word: compaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the support of compact videotape recorders and small microwave transmitters, the cameras give TV news an undreamed-of flexibility. Breaking stories can be video-taped on the spot and carried back to the station. If deadlines and local traffic are harsh, the material can be beamed direct to the station for taping and editing there. Or, most dramatically, developing stories can be put directly...
Therefore I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech. Just a little straight talk among friends. And I intend it to be the first of many...
...Hans Selye (a leading expert on stress), Marshall goes on to explain: "The secret of pitching every day is proper training. The key to that is specificity, which means understanding structural and mechanical analysis, physiology and baseball well enough to integrate them." Marshall's own structure is a compact 5 ft. 10 in. and 185 Ibs. He conditions it with a personal regimen that includes weight lifting and jogging but not the usual training-camp routine of calisthenics and wind sprints...
...Briarmont, where handsome houses sprawl over huge lots arrayed along winding, tree-lined streets. One of the most attractive homes is a $35,000 three-bedroom ranch with avocado green paneling, a sunken living room and a two-car garage. A dark blue Cadillac and a tan Buick compact decorate the driveway. This is the home of J. Mason Davis and June Davis and their two children, the family on TIME'S cover...
Greatest Deterrent. Physicist Taylor's warning has not been lightly taken; his credentials are impressive. During his seven years at the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, he specialized in the design of compact and efficient A-bombs. Though Taylor admits that the fabrication of such devices is beyond the capability of basement bombsmiths, he feels that the manufacture of less sophisticated and powerful weapons...