Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orbited Echo I, a thin-skinned, gas-filled balloon 100 ft. in diameter, pioneer of a future globe-girdling network of balloon satellites to be used to bounce com munications signals from one continent to another (see SCIENCE...
...spin like a bullet-Lockheed Aircraft Corp. engineers had replaced the rockets with gas jets, anxiously prayed they had guessed right. In the console-banked control room at Sunnyvale, Calif., Air Force Colonel Charles G. ("Moose") Mathison paced the floor while monitoring the countdown and alerting his worldwide tracking network. After launch, Mathison waited tensely for word that Discoverer was in orbit, broke into a grin at the happy news: Discoverer XIII was on a nearperfect circular course, only .003 of a degree off its predicted route...
...battle, said: "Good morning. This is World War II.'' As for television: "I think their spoon-feeding of the American public has resulted in a corruption and an ignorance that may sink this country," says Sahl solemnly. He wants, however, to destroy all the admen and network executives who have kept him at harm's length and most of the time...
Last week FBI agents moved through Fayette County, trying to determine whether the Negroes' constitutional rights have been violated. The white folks pshawed all that talk of boycotts and blacklists. But the Negroes, using their own underground network of maids and cooks, secured two lists that are secretly circulating among white businessmen: one names 325 registered Negro voters in the county and singles out ten who are said to be "troublemakers"; another lists 70 new voters who registered last June, segregates the 25 Negroes among them. Braving the icy stares and stony silence of the white people...
This week, the Congo may even have a functioning government. After a whirlwind trip from Washington to Canada, where he got Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's promise of a 100-man-army communications network in the Congo, Lumumba buzzed back to New York. On his schedule were nothing but a trip to Macy's, the purchase of some English language records and a flight for home, presumably to try to solve some of the problems he has just been talking about up till...