Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Additional Teletype service from the Associated Press and United Press International enabled TIME'S election-night communications network to receive more than 142,000 printed words an hour. A staff of 28 copy deskmen routed this material to writers and editors all through the night; a force of reference librarians dug out background material. At each candidate's election-night headquarters, TIME had its own special wirephoto arrangements to transmit pictures...
...Gulping down mounting returns, network computers giddily upped the odds on Kennedy. But the predictions only made Nixon Campaign Manager Len Hall huff that the computers ought to be tossed into the junkheap. The election, he claimed, was "a squeaker...
...most fitting conclusion for this crazy campaign," said Charles von Fremd of CBS News at 5 A.M. Wednesday. The press headquarters at the Hyannis National Guard Armory was nearly deserted; most newspapermen had gone off for a couple of hours of sleep, leaving the scene to the television network men and a few diehard writers like Murray Kempton of the New York Post...
...from the Vice-President, the press corps settled down to a long siege. Most of the newspapermen went to neighboring motels for a few hours' rest. The television men had to stay on hand for possible short reports: Scherer sat on the platform for an hour waiting for his network's call, which finally came while he was in the middle of a sandwich and a cup of coffee...
...nitrogen fluoresce in characteristic wave lengths that can easily be distinguished from the spectrum of sunlight. When Los Alamos Physicist Donald R. Westervelt learned about this, he designed a detection system based upon it. A few dozen of his detectors spotted around the earth would be an adequate network. Some of them would always be under clear skies. In daylight they would detect a one-megaton burst 2,000,000 miles from the earth, much farther at night. Cost of each station...