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Freezing Frames. The effect of Goldmark's system is to free individual TV receivers from the confinement of commercial broadcasting. Under its agreement with CBS, Motorola will produce briefcase-sized player units with wires that clamp onto the antenna terminals of existing TV sets. The viewer can then choose a film cartridge, drop it into the player, and dial an unused channel. The film, which automatically threads and rewinds itself, can carry nearly an hour of black-and-white viewing and can be stopped at any time for either individual "freezes" or to flip the frames through...
Captivating Experiences. Goldmark believes that initially EVR will be purely instructional-used in schools, hospitals and industries-if only for reasons of cost. Motorola will price the first EVR player units at nearly $800 apiece. Yet mass production could conceivably push the price down to a fraction of that and eventually lead to TV sets with built-in EVR units. "EVR will make education as compelling as TV entertainment," Goldmark insists. He points out that with EVR, a backwoods teacher could become an educational paragon, ordering lectures by Robert Lowell on poetry, by Zino Francescatti on the violin...
...Gatto, Harvard's 1968 football captain and all-time rushing leader, yesterday became the first Crimson player ever to receive the much-coveted Nils V. Nelson national award for sportsmanship...
Jack Daly, president of the Gridiron Club said, "Vie was far more than a great player. He was rated highly for his work with disadvantaged children last summer, and players on opposing teams had only the highest praise for him as a sportsman as well as a great halfback...
...happened to Gatto in the last four weeks. 27 days ago he caught the final touchdown pass as time expired to help his team to the memorable 29-29 victory over Yale. A few days later he was named the recipient of the Crocker Award as Most Valuable player. A week after that, he got married...