Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When TIME covered its first political convention back in 1924, one of the main topics of conversation, then as now, was the impact of a new communications medium on the conduct of political campaigns. This year television's unblinking eye is fixed on the big show at Chicago (see COVER). I thought you would enjoy seeing some of the things TIME was reporting in 1924 about the relatively new field of radio broadcasting...
...staff of six lawyers, headed by William Pierce Rogers, onetime counsel for the Senate Investigations Committee (among his cases: the five-percenters). Part of their assignment: to get their best witnesses before television cameras, as well as before the committee, so that the U.S. public would get the full impact of their case...
...suspense (will he make a mistake?) which some found exciting and others painful. While Ike has much off-the-cuff speaking experience, he was not quite equal to the hazards of public-address systems (sound engineers vainly worked on the Detroit p.a. system till the last minute), the emotional impact of facing a vast crowd, the split-minute timing necessary for TV and radio. Ike rambled on about Berlin, then saw a TV technician flashing a warning sign that he had only three minutes to go: Ike threw away part of what he had wanted to say, raced...
Decrying an English writer's concept that the idea of the community is too big and too various to be grasped except theoretically, Conant stressed the importance of a community sentiment. "I suggest," he said, "that in these days when national service has had its impact on the lives of so many young men, we need to do all we can to nourish this feeling for the community among the citizens of this land...
...reasonable to presume that their important targets will be heavily defended by these missiles. How will the B-47 fare against such a defense? The time has come for us to adopt another yardstick for measuring air power than the air group. We must plan for the impact of guided-missile warfare...