Word: comsat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subcommittee has shied away from it. By 1969, the Communications Satellite Corp. will have five Early Birds in space, which will enable any single TV broadcast to blanket the globe, and within the next few years some 20 countries will have built stations to tune in on Comsat's broadcasts. Such prophets as RCA's David Sarnoff foresee the day when it will be possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from a satellite. Not everyone, of course, can be expected to view this possibility with enthusiasm. The Russians would not like the idea...
Some experts consider Sarnoff's approach too visionary, believe that for a long time to come Comsat will serve strictly as a telephone and telegraph conveyance that would only occasionally be used for broadcasting international events of overriding importance. Even so, some form of agreement will have to be reached, if only to settle quarrels that are already looming-over what fees Comsat can collect, what programs it should broadcast, who should own the ground stations that will relay them, and whether Comsat should retain its monopoly status...
...engines) are pursuing prosperity with a diversity of projects. Nine allied countries fly Northrop Corp.'s hot twin-jet F-5 fighter, and the company is developing deep ocean bases for the Navy, building three broadcasting stations in Ethiopia, and teaching budgetary accounting to the Nicaraguan government. Comsat has just placed a $35 million order for 24 satellites with Cleveland-based TRW Inc. Martin Marietta last month won the first production contract, for $12,085,430, for the Walleye glide bomb, a missile that is hauled high by a plane, then unleashed to swoop on an enemy with television...
...could also speed satellite communications for ABC radio and television. A major stockholder in Comsat, I. T. & T. last month asked approval from the Federal Communications Commission to build and operate a satellite earth station in Puerto Rico, where it runs the telephone system. The station would connect the U.S., Europe and Latin America with live TV, telephone and other services...
...Comsat, McCormack may, if any thing, slacken his pace. Although he was forced out of a promising Air Force career at 45 by heart trouble he has lately been working a 100-hour week at M.I.T. and as chairman of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. He also sits on six company boards, intends to relinquish all of these seats to avoid conflicts of interest. So anxious is he to get into space that last week he had no sooner finished a speaking engagement in Los Angeles than he jetted to Washington overnight to attend his first Comsat board...