Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a Republican Administration came to Washington in 1952, the correspondents put fresh vigor into their classic role as people's monitor over the Government. The publishers had overwhelmingly supported the Eisenhower candidacy, but they were not in Washington doing the prying and prodding that go with the day's work of the good reporter. It was the working press that kept asking what the President would do about Joe McCarthy (and what McCarthy would do about the President), whether "Engine Charlie" Wilson was going to sell his General Motors stock,* or if Republican appointees were trying...
...Munich, our special correspondent, Robert Ball, joined the search for information. He went from inconspicuous downtown buildings to an antenna-studded former Luftwaffe base in the suburbs and back to a house hidden among the trees in the Englischer Garten to check with the agencies that monitor Communist-country radio broadcasts and interview refugees from behind the curtain. From these and other private sources, Ball was able to help us flesh out the file for our story, "The Third Man" (TIME, Dec. 19), the first hard look U.S. readers have had at General of the Army Ivan Alexandrovich Serov...
...press swallowed the theory. The New York Herald Tribune and even the Christian Science Monitor accepted and adopted the Loftus line to a degree in pre-game articles. Only one sportswriter in the area, George Carens of the Boston Traveler, took the trouble to contact the Crimson swimming coach on the matter...
...Control Engineering, W. G. Rowell of Scully Signal Co. and A. B. Van Rennes of M.I.T. describe a method that they have invented for "watching the watchman." The monitor as usual watches all operations of the machine, but when everything is going well, it does not merely sit back and give a "safe" signal. Instead it gives a rapid alternation of safe and unsafe signals. Unless this alternation continues, proving that the monitor is alert and on the job, the machine will shut itself off. If any part of the machine fails (including its readiness to shut itself...
Rowell and Van Rennes believe that this basic principle of "exercising" the monitor to prove that it is still alert can be applied to anything from airplane controls to chemical factories. It will not keep them from failing, but it should make them "fail safe," even when the electronic watchman has died...