Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even worse, Ribicoff found himself outside the President's inner circle of confidants. It was the technicians of the Cabinet-McNamara, Dillon, Rusk-who had the President's ear, but they rarely saw fit to question his political judgment. So Abe was reduced to the dull and thankless job of administering a department...
...Cong into the open with rockets and napalm jelly. Suddenly a spotter plane picked out a group of fleeing Viet Cong guerrillas and dropped a smoke grenade. Fire from rifles and automatic weapons killed five of the Viet Cong, but two dozen more escaped into the trees. During the ear-shattering, three-minute exchange of fire, a farmer at the edge of the trees placidly kept plowing his field...
...make such low power practical, Telstar's puny little transmitter has a hefty ally on the ground. In the mountain-ringed village of Andover, Me., inside a 210-ft. sphere of inflated silvery fabric, stands a great, hornlike antenna. This mammoth electronic ear rotates, twists at odd angles, and can point toward any part of the sky. However it turns, two fair-size houses filled with electronics turn with it, and the thin, frail voice of Telstar is plucked from the sky. Fed into a maser cooled with liquid helium and sent through other intricate equipment, that voice...
...network reported it on a perfect orbit. At Andover, anxious scientists heard with relief that its telemetering system was working precisely as planned, reporting no trouble at all. But during its first five 158-min. orbits, Telstar did not come within practical line-of-sight distance of the big ear in Maine. The sixth orbit was the payoff. It was 7 p.m. in Maine when the satellite raced toward the U.S. Calculations showed that it would pass close enough to Maine to hear a command...
...working properly; Telstar had turned on its relay apparatus and was ready for business. All eyes in the room watched as a vague light flickered on a TV screen. Then, with remarkable clarity, they saw the American flag waving briskly in front of a view of the big ear's fabric sphere. This picture, which also went to viewers across the U.S., had originated in a TV camera just outside the control room. It had jumped to Telstar, then it had come back to earth, amplified 10 billion times...