Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit electronics firm, has a three-year-old son named David. Their homes are some miles apart, but on certain completely unpredictable emergency evenings, only Mickey can make David agree to go to bed. On those evenings, John Mayer takes his son down to the basement, turns on his ham TV equipment and tunes in Mickey. Before long the puppet has persuaded the kid to hit the sack...
Mueller was among the first, but he and Mayer are by no means the only, ham television broadcasters in the country. There are about 200 of them scattered about, although most are concentrated in Detroit, Toledo and Columbus. These amateur NBCs even have their own trade journal, the Amateur TV Experimenter. It is less than a year old, with 500 subscribers now and an average of ten new ones coming in each...
...commercial TV camera and dolly can cost as much as $40,000, but the hams can build their own simpler ones for as little as $75. Many of them are using small cameras that the Air Force once used as part of the guidance system on drone bombers-available as surplus material for $100 to $200 apiece. Towers or high antennas are also needed, and before they are ready to broadcast, many TV hams spend as much as $3,000 incorporating such zazzy features as wide-angle lenses. All of them are also ham radio operators by necessity, to supply...
...guests: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, and, of course, the most prominent Negro members of the Administration-Robert C. Weaver, head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Carl Rowan, Ambassador-designate to Finland. Menu: shrimp Creole, curried chicken, ham, turkey, and two kinds of punch, not counting the political kind...
...past five years, the U.S. has pumped some $43.5 million into Haiti, the small Negro Caribbean country misruled by Strongman François Duvalier. A respected back-country doctor before he went into politics, "Papa Doc,'' as he calls himself, has become a ham-fisted tyrant, illegally perpetuating himself in power. His private army of Tonton Macoutes. meaning bogeymen in Creole, crushes the opposition and shakes down businessmen. The bogeymen even insist on distributing the U.S. gifts of food and taking their cut; the U.S. refuses, and so the food sits rotting in a Port-au-Prince warehouse...