Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bronze Star under gunfire "for staying on the telephone for 17 hours when the Japs seemed to be about to stage a landing on Mindoro," giving him a dislike of phones ever since. After the Army, Kalem wrote a weekly stock-market letter, then joined the Christian Science Monitor as a book critic, where he caught TIME...
Glenn had made it. As it later turned out, Glenn's heat shield had been in place all along; a monitor in the capsule had been flashing a misleading signal to the ground. But John Glenn could not be certain that he was safe until he saw that the parachute which would lower his capsule gently into the Atlantic had opened. Said he the next day: "That's probably the prettiest of sight you ever saw in your life...
Then from radio monitor stations strung around the girth of the earth came bad news. One of the rockets had given too much push, and Ranger III was moving too fast. Instead of streaking toward the moon at the proper speed of 24,500 m.p.h., it was moving at more than 25,000 m.p.h. It would slice through the moon's orbit in 55 hours instead of 66 as planned. And at that time, the moon would not be there; Ranger III would miss by nearly 25,000 miles (see diagram...
...rest of the week's performance, the elaborately polite principals acted as if that bristling question had never been suggested. Playing Alphonse, Minow was full of assurances that the FCC is only an interested monitor and does not want to take an active hand in network programming, and he added ceremoniously that "this is the way it should be in a free society. We are determined that it shall so remain...
...since the days of the Suez crisis," wrote Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, "has the Western world been more deeply divided than it is now over the Katanga. The situation is in a thorough mess.'' And not for years have the pundits and editorialists of the U.S. press been so deeply disturbed by a cold war maneuver. Last week, as the mess in the Congo showed no signs of abating (see THE WORLD), the U.S. press found little that made sense in the strange and unsettling collision of international armies half the world away...