Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-stage rocket," said the Russian announcement, "weighs 1,553 kg. [3,423 Ibs.] without fuel and carries measuring equipment [presumably radio and guiding instruments] weighing 156.5 kg. [345 lbs.]. The station itself weighs 278.5 kg. [614 lbs.]." This description apparently means that the third-stage rocket has apparatus for turning itself in space and firing small rockets to correct its course, either by obedience to radio orders from the ground or under the instruction of its own inertial guidance system. After the course had been corrected, said the Soviet announcement, the rocket was detached from the station-most likely...
Lunik III carried "scientific and radio equipment powered by solar batteries and chemical sources of electricity." The Russians explained that radio signals carrying data from the instruments would be sent to earth intermittently for a total of two to four hours a day. "The operation of the equipment will be controlled from a coordinating and computing center on the earth." Since Soviet receiving stations do not girdle the turning earth, Lunik III was presumably programed to transmit its signals only when they would reach Soviet territory...
...accent, bumped into the grand lady who of course turned out to be his long-lost love. As the two bodies collided, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture suddenly thundered of pain and passion. "I say," muttered the colonel. "You seem to have turned on my transistor radio...
...funny as anything seen on TV. On his first of eight monthly shows this year, Carney was badly hampered by some dreadful jokes and a couple of high-school-level musical numbers. But in the skits he triumphed with his marvelously mobile face, his adaptable voice (he started in radio 17 years ago on a serious news show, impersonating Churchill and F.D.R.) and the conscientiousness about being funny that marks a major clown...
...treacle. It happened last week. The scene: a sports banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. When M.C. Ralph ("Happy") Edwards advanced on Correspondent and World Traveler Lowell Thomas with the familiar, savagely cheerful cry ("This is your life"), Thomas simply refused to play. An old hand at radio and TV himself, Thomas had guessed (like many subjects nowadays) that he had been chosen for the honor of having his life re-created as a half-hour soap opera. Thomas snarled: "I think this is a sinister conspiracy." Edwards dissolved into a nervous giggle from which neither...