Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cheap, reliable radiation sniffer capable of giving a timely warning of danger. Last week the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it had developed just such a gadget. Unlike earlier devices, which are cumbersome, slow to report or have to be read with close attention, the O.R.N.L. "Personal Radiation Monitor" is no larger than a fountain pen and reacts unmistakably as soon as it scents trouble. Clipped to a lab worker's clothing, the monitor gives off high-pitched chirps and flashes an orange neon light whenever it detects radiation. The stronger the radiation, the faster the chirps...
...miniature, transistorized Geiger counter with works slightly less complicated than the average pocket radio, the personal monitor has no switch; it is on all the time. Its tiny mercury battery is good for a month of steady operation. Now properly equipped workers will no longer have to take time off to read a meter or check a counter. Their personal monitor will give them the word. "It is intended to tell lab personnel whenever there has been a change of radiation level," says an Oak Ridge scientist. The workers put it more succinctly: "It tells us when to run like...
Bunker, a forn. - aide of General Douglas MacArthur. and a member of the council of the semisecret, archconservative John Birch Society (TIME, March 10). Additional support came from Boston's antimedicine Christian Science Monitor...
...politically far, far out," can only be an "added weight" on President Kennedy. Edward R. Murrow's job as chief of the U.S. Information Agency, while welcomed by such columnists as the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston and the Christian Science Monitor's William H. Stringer, prompted Publisher John S. Knight's Miami Herald to part company, at least for the moment, with Kennedy. Although Murrow speaks with "passionate clarity," said the Herald, his self-confessed failure,as an executive at CBS renders him unfit for the post: "For once, the President...
...newspaper is an effective political force only within its own community (for papers like the Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal, their community is the nation as a whole). In local matters, an aggressive newspaper can expose the sins and oversights of government and can play an important, active role in political life, if it behaves as a respectable citizen. In national affairs, the newspaper's role is more passive: it must, to the best of its resources and abilities, keep its public informed as to what is going on. Few papers are capable of doing...