Word: nob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before long, Yvonne has wound up in San Francisco with Hudson's cash, and is palming herself off as the war widow of the scion of a wealthy Nob Hill family. But she is not really happy. "All of a sudden," she admits, "I've got everything I want, but I don't want anything I've got." She is also smarting under a crack made to her by Hudson: "Money can't do everything, Roxy. There's a certain thing called class, and you haven...
Long before H-hour, millions of expectant televiewers across the U.S. were gathered around their sets. As the minutes ticked by, the announcer on News Nob, ten miles from Yucca Flat, Nev., described the scene tensely. Only 15 minutes before H-hour, the picture grew shaky, wobbled, then disappeared. When it came back, there was a new camera angle, this time from Charleston Peak, 57 miles away. Then, at 9:30 a.m. P.S.T., viewers got what they were waiting for: a live telecast of an atomic explosion, the first ever covered on a television network...
...instead of a blinding blast of whiteness, viewers saw a pinpoint of white, surrounded by an oval of blackness. Three minutes later, the nearer cameras on News Nob were back in operation, televising the mushrooming of smoke as it climbed into the sky. The TV spectacle itself was anticlimactic, partly because the white glare produced blackness on the electronic tube. But the man responsible for the coverage had made television history...
...From cameras on News Nob, the signal was beamed to the Atomic Energy Commission's control point a quarter of a mile away, then to a second relay near the top of snow-covered Charleston Peak, about 46 miles farther...
Landsberg's circuit was ready days before the blast, but his big trouble began just before H-hour. The AEC's power supply at the test site failed, so the telecast switched to a camera on Charleston Peak. When the power on News Nob came on again, the cameras did not have enough warmup time to catch the explosion. Result: TV Announcer Fred Henry described the first three minutes from ten miles away, while cameras recorded it from a distance of 57 miles...