Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GEORGE LINCOLN, 64, a retired Army brigadier general, will disseminate the policy guidelines framed by the Cost of Living Council. He will also monitor the questions and complaints that flow in, administer the information and investigative network, which now includes the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Agriculture as well as the Office of Emergency Preparedness...
...saying, That was great for openers, but where do we go from here?' After the 90-day freeze, do we slide into a straitjacket of mandatory controls, or do we use this time to develop a set of noninflationary ground rules and a wage-price review board to monitor them?" Echoes Robert Nathan: "If the Administration's leaders are tough enough, we'll get a good incomes policy and a wage-price board. But I don't know if they've got guts enough to do that, and do it so that labor doesn...
...Fendell's "shooting script" called for what was dubbed a "WAP," or wide-angle panorama. The camera slowly swept in a full circle around the horizon, enabling the scientists in Mission Control's science support room to take a series of overlapping Polaroid snapshots off their TV monitor, quickly study them for any oddity and then request Fendell to zoom in on it. Such a closeup was called a "NATO," or narrow-angle target of opportunity. While the scientists pored over their pictures, Fendell adroitly mixed his WAPs and NATOs with numerous shots of the moon walkers...
...visit. Left behind on the moon along with the rover, the remotecontrolled camera was scheduled to give the world its first pictures of a lunar lift-off taken from the moon's surface. Because of the nagging time lags, Fendell could not afford to look at the TV monitor himself. He had to go completely by the clock. At exactly T-minus-zero, Fendell had to begin tilting the camera upward. Thus, by the time his command reached the moon, the camera would-he hoped-follow Falcon's ascent stage until it drifted off the tube. Then...
...Chicago, as a copy boy for the Sun-Times. He was sacked during an economy drive in 1950 and took a temporary job with NBC as a news writer. He was soon signed on full time and found himself out on the streets covering fires and chasing criminals. When Monitor was started on NBC radio, Chancellor was among the first newsmen assigned to that novel and imaginative operation. Driving a mobile unit rigged to look like a police car, complete with a flashing red light and a siren, Chancellor stayed tuned to the police radio band and often beat...