Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parking garage press room, at least ten people are making use of the hundred-odd typewriters laid out on row after row of tables. The press struggles to cover the event, their efforts hampered because the press area is in the bleachers of the papal ballfield. The radio and TV people fight to get their equipment working; photographers jockey for front-row seats, but with most of the press corps aboard the bus following the papal motorcade, the major topic of conversation among scribes stranded at the Common is why the ladies delegated to serve lunch to the media refuse...
...radio broadcast, Dacko, 49, a former schoolteacher who was the first President of the former French colony after independence in 1960, proclaimed the country the Central African Republic again and promised to "return sovereignty to the people." At week's end French troops flew to Bangui to maintain order and perhaps to make sure Bokassa does not return from exile...
...objects that astronomers have found in the skies, quasars are the most enigmatic. Though they resemble ordinary stars when viewed through optical telescopes, they are billions of lightyears* away, the farthermost objects in the observable universe. But to be seen through ordinary telescopes and detected by radio telescopes at those distances, quasars must radiate more energy than entire galaxies, which are giant islands of billions of stars. Now, while trying to explain what quasars are and how they radiate so much energy, astronomers have been confronted by yet another mystery: twin quasars...
...Nature report created a wave of excitement among scientists, and several teams focused their attention on the twin quasars. Among them were David Roberts, Perry Greenfield and Bernard Burke, all from M.I.T., who analyzed signals from the quasars received at the Very Large Array (VLA) antennas of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory near Socorro, N.M. What resulted was a radio map that, with one important exception, coincided with the images seen with the Kitt Peak telescope. The difference was that the sensitive radio antenna array discerned two jets of material that seemed to be shooting from one of the quasars...
...Brett's insider's knowledge of high-intensity show business - he is a scriptwriter and former BBC radio producer - that makes his witty mysteries go. It looks as if Charles Paris is finally working in a long run. So it's not Oedipus...