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...Communications Satellite Corp. will have five Early Birds in space, 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...
Some experts consider Sarnoff's approach too visionary, believe that for a long time to come Comsat will serve strictly as a telephone and telegraph conveyance that would only occasionally be used for broadcasting international events of overriding importance. Even so, some form of agreement will have to be reached, if only to settle quarrels that are already looming-over what fees Comsat can collect, what programs it should broadcast, who should own the ground stations that will relay them, and whether Comsat should retain its monopoly status...
...Will Sarnoff take the other...
...undergraduate. Another large area of interest is the world of business. An anthology* of 20 Essays that ran before Jan. 1 drew appreciative response from the business executives to whom it was sent. Characteristic was the appraisal of Radio Corporation of America's President Robert W. Sarnoff, who wrote us: "I have watched the development of this new journalistic form with interest and admiration and I am delighted to have a volume of selections for my library...
...this day, 75-year-old David Sarnoff, chairman of the massive Radio Corporation of America, Brigadier General of the Army in World War II and adviser to five Presidents, resents those years of everlasting drudgery and clammy poverty, and the denial of a normal family life. Eugene Lyons, Sarnoff's first cousin and a senior editor of the Reader's Digest, suggests that this deprived childhood sparked the insatiable drive for success which marked Sarnoffs public career. That is undoubtedly true, just as it is true that Sarnoffs success rests on his capacity for perseverance, his almost unique...