Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brief Visions. Besides these features, which have been photographed, the surface of Mars has a wealth of detail that has never been captured on a photographic plate. Motions of the earth's atmosphere make the disk jiggle and shimmer, and photographs, long exposed, show nothing but vague mottling. But when a trained observer looks at Mars through a telescope, his eye (which is "faster" than a photographic emulsion) stops the motion of the disk for brief instants at rare intervals. During these enchanted moments, Mars looks like a map covered with lines and dots and patches. The vision vanishes...
...whole country," officials sent fragments to each of the forty-eight governors, a polished cross-section to Mount Vernon, and thirty-two inscribed blocks abroad. They also presented two gavels of Washington Elm to each state legislature. All that remained to mark the tree site was a bronze disk, resembling a manhole cover, in the middle of Garden street...
...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...
...more than three weeks Arnold and McCall talked to disk jockeys and teenagers, practiced bop talk around the office. When they first tried the routine on Brigadier General Joseph C. Moffitt, commanding officer of the Colorado Air Guard (the 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing), he didn't quite dig the parradiddle. "He thought we had flipped our beanies. He was real square." But when he heard the first tape recording, the general "was real sent. He felt them...
...jukebox and disk-jockey trade, record companies are reviving an old idea: "talk" records. These are comedy sketches or monologues of the type that helped kill vaudeville and weakened radio to the point where television became inevitable. Last week one of them, What It Was, Was Football, was striking for the bestselling list...