Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign for its staffers: "Under no circumstances are you to patronize the NBC cafeteria." TV Reporter Vince Garrity caused an outraged flurry by flaunting ABC lapel pins in range of rival cameras. NBC went so far as to hire a professional lip reader to try to catch out-of-reach conversation, and ABC issued instructions to its staff: "Be sure when you are on camera, that you sit up straight, have your legs crossed modestly, and your jacket buttoned...
...biggest problem was getting cameras into the right place at the right time. Sometimes the sheer magnitude of the new gadgets delayed the news. One NBC man got stuck on top of a 70-foot "hi-reach" camera and was forgotten. Twelve ABC men were wedged between electronic gear in a tiny booth until someone called a locksmith. Larry (Meet the Press) Spivak had to be rushed to a doctor to have a small speaker plug removed from his ear. Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson got hopping mad at CBS for "wrecking" his hotel suite, and no one could stand...
...into the known universe. "The anti-cosmon may or may not have decayed by now, since spontaneous decay is a process governed by a statistical law," says Goldhaber. "If it did decay (forming an 'anti-cosmos'), any anti-nucleons that are shot out with sufficient velocity to reach our cosmos will annihilate some part of it, possibly establishing a deviation from spherical symmetry in the distribution of matter in our cosmos...
Hard Work. Shelley Mann's all-out assault on every event within reach has caused plenty of poolside comment. But Stan Tinkham has a ready answer for his critics: "I'm called a nonconformist in my coaching techniques, but this time I think I know what I'm doing. Shelley is the temperamental type and thrives on hard work. It's better for her to be getting ready for two events than for one. Why, in some meets she's gone in three preliminaries, three finals and a relay all the same day, and even...
...WINE SALES are expected to increase 10% in 1956, reach an alltime peak of $660 million (v. $260 million in 1940), though the industry reports that only one out of three Americans ever takes a sip of wine...