Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half of cable linked the cameras with NBC's color mobile unit in the street outside. Within the curbstone control room, nine shirtsleeved men were wedged into a maze of apparatus like submariners at battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed in front of him and to his left stood...
...almost ten minutes, until the technicians got Camera Three working again, Coyle kept the two survivors zooming and pivoting. From its emergency chores in the infield, Camera Two groped repeatedly for urgent outfield closeups; its monitor sometimes became a quivering mound of mixed Jell-o before trembling to a halt on an outfielder poised for a catch, without a second to spare before Coyle threw the picture on the air. But through the whole afternoon, only a single catch eluded the 24 men who toiled to take the Series to the nation. "That's not too bad," said...
...climb through the weather to follow the balloon, and radar was useless. The radio that reported Simons' heartbeat and respiration rate had died, and the main radio seemed to be weakening. Calmly, Dr. Stapp told Dr. Simons the news: if he stayed up he would have to monitor his own pulse and breathing, take his own position checks and thus could not risk more than a short nap. Answered Simons: "Let's continue the flight...
...Republican Loeb (TIME, May 20), who frequently vents his spleen in terrible-tempered Page One editorials, e.g., an attack on President Eisenhower headed "Dopey Dwight," happily stepped up his press runs to 90,000 daily and 100,000 on Sunday and reported a sellout. The Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which has a separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After a 14-day interval in which it cautiously banned street sales within 30 miles of Boston, the Monitor last week resumed distribution in the city, but it did not have the press capacity to boost...
Salon later that year, it won a medal of honor, but caused no public stir, appealed to no collector. Hoping for a buyer, Painter Chabas shipped the picture to the U.S. There the unhoped-for happened. It came to the attention of bewhiskered Anthony Comstock, self-appointed monitor of U.S. morals...