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...last week did the P.R.G. finally permit cables to go directly to Hong Kong rather than through Hanoi, thereby reducing the time it takes for dispatches to reach Western countries from one to two days down to about three hours. The P.R.G. still does not allow direct telex, telephone, radiophoto or film links with Western countries, though it has permitted reporters from Cuba and Eastern Europe to fly to Hanoi with material that they have presumably relayed home and to the West. In recent days, the P.R.G. has stopped picture-taking of troops and street scenes, arresting and later releasing...
...still return in time to meet competitive deadlines. "They are as indispensable as the walkie-talkie and the reporter's pencil," claims Shiro Hara, managing editor of Yomiuri. Many of the aircraft are equipped to process film in flight, then transmit it to newspaper offices via mobile radiophoto equipment. When a disaster breaks, speed is so important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies even use vacant lots near their offices as sites on which to drop negatives from helicopters when time permits. Asahi spends...
...city dailies fight for circulation with all the costly gadgetry of modern news gathering. Walkie-talkies, high-speed teleprinters, facsimile transmitters and radio-equipped cars are standard reportorial accessories. To cover a big story quickly, Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 3,900,000) will throw in mobile radiophoto units, a brace of helicopters, one of its six airplanes. Beyond all that, Japanese newspapers' rooftops are equipped with some of the oddest journalistic aids in use anywhere today-flocks of carrier pigeons...
...that time, televiewers will already have seen a great many still pictures of the coronation. These can be flashed by radiophoto from England in less than ten minutes and put on the air a few minutes later. NBC has moved up Dave Garroway's Today show from its usual 7 a.m. E.D.T. to 5:30 a.m., and will install a new machine called Mufax, to add movement and continuity to the still pictures...
Universal Air. Radio technology may very quickly alter this. Press Wireless, Inc. transmitted 600 photographs over its radiophoto circuits to Berne,Moscow and Chungking last January; OWI men in the field are now using portable radiophoto transmitters. The development of high-frequency transmission will mean a local broadcast band of nearer to 500,000 kilocycles than the present 15,000. The arrival of television and television