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After more than ten experimental years, the FCC last week approved commercial transmission of facsimile (TIME, Jan. 12). On July 15 any FM station that is ready for the job may start printing "fax" newspapers by radio. If it can be done satisfactorily in color (several experimenters think they have workable techniques), that will be all right with...
...opposition papers, because nobody had found how to make them pay. The gadget was not yet a threat to the peace & quiet of the home, because a receiver still cost $600 to $900. But time and mass production might take care of all that; the big news about "fax" was that, technically, the bugs were pretty well worked out of it. Editors still had a lot to learn about type and makeup for an 8½ in. by 11 in. page. But the sheets turned out last week (at the rate of four pages in 15 minutes) were clear...
...arrival of FM radio was a big help. With conventional AM, the static from any passing streetcar could distort a "fax" page. FM made for smooth reception, but it raised an intriguing question. Since a broadcaster could convert to facsimile for $10,000 to $15,000, what was to prevent anyone with an FM license from going into the newspaper business...
...empire expanded week to within about 75 miles of the rich oil fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
Professor Mather is an old hand at acting, having ably taken the part of "Kohlhard Fax" in a one-act faculty play last...