Word: network
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Broadcast live by the Educational Radio Network, the seminar featured speeches by French and Swiss journalists and a member of the German Bundestag, followed by comments by the Secretary General of Belgium's Christian Socialist Party, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, and a First Secretary in Sweden's Ministry of Finance...
...Boston engineering firm of Lockwood-Greene will begin in the near future the second phase of its survey into the fallout-shelter capacity of University buildings. The survey will probably lead to a request by Civil Defense authorities to turn Harvard's basements into a network of public shelters...
Sixth Payoff. Soon after Telstar was launched, NASA's global tracking network reported it on a perfect orbit. At Andover, anxious scientists heard with relief that its telemetering system was working precisely as planned, reporting no trouble at all. But during its first five 158-min. orbits, Telstar did not come within practical line-of-sight distance of the big ear in Maine. The sixth orbit was the payoff. It was 7 p.m. in Maine when the satellite raced toward the U.S. Calculations showed that it would pass close enough to Maine to hear a command...
...bitter and continuing argument about the possibility of detecting clandestine bomb tests took a turn last week in favor of the optimists-those scientists who believe a detection network to be feasible. The U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a four-page booklet stating that "there may be substantially fewer earthquakes that produce signals equivalent to an underground nuclear explosion of given yield than had been expected." All by itself, that brief statement represented quite a switch; the Defense Department has usually favored the attitude that secret Russian underground tests could not be distinguished from natural...
...Sheboygan, Wis., where his father ran a small chair factory. He went to Marquette University and helped pay his expenses by working at a Milwaukee radio station. Four years of miscellaneous radio jobs after graduation finally led to Chicago and the first Breakfast Club show on the old Blue Network (now ABC) in the summer...