Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which will enable any single TV broadcast to blanket the globe, and within the next few years some 20 countries will have built stations to tune in on Comsat's broadcasts. Such prophets as RCA's David Sarnoff foresee the day when it will be possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from a satellite. Not everyone, of course, can be expected to view this possibility with enthusiasm. The Russians would not like the idea of every dacha in the Ukraine receiving broadcasts from New York, nor would the U.S. wish to hear instant...
...better. No one particularly welcomes this competitive prospect. One estimate of the ccst of countering a Russian effort at space denial and of assuring U.S. domination is a round $250 billion-and presumably it would cost the Russians just as much. While the U.S. and Russia may reach general agreement on many aspects of space exploration, the outlook for military uses of space is an expensive stalemate much like that now in effect on earth...
...bulk of Canada's 20 million people are clustered within an hour's drive or two of the U.S. border. Many of the nation's cities are within reach of wilderness where Indians still hunt deer. Canada remains one of the world's last frontiers, but it is subduing nature with the tools of modern technology rather than oxcarts and covered wagons...
While study of the Greenland ice sample continues, the Army drilling team has already packed up and head ed for Antarctica, where it plans to bore through the southern ice sheet to reach layers estimated to be as much as 90,000 years...
...have been waiting for the right moment to buy at bargain rates. Then, too, there was good news: the elections in Viet Nam; the decision by the U.S. to buttress Britain's pound with more credits; the prediction by G.M. that next year's car sales will reach...