Word: dots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French noncommissioned officer in charge of a small detachment of Vietnamese militia. Theoretically they are uniformed troops, but so far the uniform doesn't go much beyond a floppy bush hat and an armband. At another place I saw men building one of those Beau Geste forts which dot the delta. They were using salvaged bricks, mortared with mud. When the lookout tower is high enough they will face it with a thin layer of cement that will keep out water, but not much else. Said a French officer sadly: "It won't stop a bazooka." (Last week...
Whatever the Chicago court's final decision, the color squabble would probably be carried to the U.S. Supreme Court. The delay enabled RCA to continue working to perfect its "dot sequential" color system. It would cause financial strain to CBS and inevitably postpone the mass production of CBS colorsets, adapters and converters. Though confident of ultimate victory, CBS President Frank Stanton recognized that it might come too late. Said Stanton: "Daddy may be proven innocent after he's hanged-that's the possibility...
Going with the wind, the Yardlings kept the ball in Medford territory in the first and third periods, while Medford stayed on the offense in the second and fourth quarters. Both teams failed dot break the tie in two five minute overtime periods...
...industry, it was the most confused day since Orson Welles, twelve years ago, launched his invasion-from-Mars. The Federal Communications Commission caused it all last week by handing down a final decision on color TV. As it had indicated it would last month, FCC ruled out the dot sequential system of RCA and the line sequential of Color Television Inc., plumped for the field sequential system of CBS (TIME...
...four that afternoon, with rain falling heavily, officials called to ask when the storm would halt. "In about half an hour," the professor replied after studying his instruments. The officials immediately notified waiting guests that ceremonies would start at 4:17. They began promptly. The rain stopped on the dot...