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...riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications, or that shrimp-boat captains are uttering obscenities on ship-to-shore frequencies, it is the FCC that takes the rap. Besides all this, the FCC grapples with Comsat and community TV antenna development, not to mention countless research chores, such as the POPSI Project-measurement of "Precipitation and other types of Off-Path Scatter Interference" on satellite and microwave communications...
...frontiers of technology. Inside its gleaming glass-and-concrete buildings, TRW produces a broad range of delicate equipment, from convergence coils for color television sets to the most advanced spacecraft components. A participant in 90% of the Government's missile-space projects, it is currently building Comsat communications satellites, NASA's Orbiting Geophysical Observatory and engines for the Apollo project's Lunar Excursion Module...
...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...