Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martial de Villemandy, 35, bounced around Europe and America with his vaudeville parents before they separated. Previously imprisoned as an army deserter, he helped botch the assassination attempt by crashing the car that was to signal the arrival of the presidential convoy...
When it took over some abandoned German positions during World War II, the U.S. Signal Corps stumbled on a discovery that was destined to revolutionize the life and times of that hardy American hobbyist, the hi-fi addict. The signalmen found magnetic tape and equipment superior to any then developed in the U.S. What they wrought back home by their find was evident last week at the Chicago World's Fair of Music and Sound. Tape is the hottest thing in hi-fi today, and the tape industry is wooing the public this fall as it never has before...
Musical Stunts. Tape's impact on commercial recording followed soon on the Signal Corps discovery: the adoption of 33⅓ r.p.m. as a standard speed for records would have been less practical had not tape-splicing techniques done away with the necessity of a perfect studio performance. Tape also made possible such stunts as Jascha Heifetz' singlehanded recording of the Bach D Minor Concerto for Two Violins and the famed recording of Patti Page singing the Tennessee Waltz over her own voice. But music lovers did not at first welcome prerecorded tape with open ears, despite its admitted...
...beat Weatherly, Gretel will have to be superb. All along, the challenger has looked good on the outside, from the cut of her new mainsail to the long curve of her bow. But her weather helm had caused enough concern to signal last week's mast shift. If the shift works, Skipper Jock Sturrock and Gretel's crew will be sailing a new boat; if it does not, the Australians will remain hapless in unruly seas...
...distance conversation continued, carried on in a language of carefully spaced pulses of radio energy. At Goldstone these pulses appeared as mere dots on a slowly moving tape. But each combi nation of dots represented numbers in the two-digit binary code that computers understand best. Finally, Goldstone sent "Signal RTC-6," which told Mariner II to execute all the commands one hour later...