Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medical Center. Anesthesiologist Leonard Fabian opened her mouth, sprayed a local anesthetic on her throat, inserted an "airway tube" to ensure unobstructed breathing. Under the watchful eye of Surgeon James Hardy, Dr. Fabian attached a tiny electrode to each of the woman's temples. At his signal, a technician turned a control on the face of a small box from which thin wires trailed out to the electrodes. Within 60 seconds the woman was sound asleep, and the operation began-first ever performed in the U.S. under electrical anesthesia...
...engineers approve of doctored stereo. Says Columbia's William S. Bachman: "You have a single signal to start with. We don't think there is any honest way to make two out of it. It's like separating mush and milk; once you get them together, you can't get them apart." RCA's Somer concedes that his technique is a compromise: too much separation results in an alteration of the original sound. Moreover, in pseudo stereo "you can spread the sound around the room, but there is no way to get the feeling...
...said that in areas where a radio signal is particularly strong, phonographs and tape recorders must be specially equipped to shut out the radio broadcasts...
...Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines. On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal...
...last week rose to 92⅞? per oz. This was a mere quarter of a cent over the current price, but it represented the biggest futures spread in 19 years. The fraction was small, but in the tight silver trade it was a lot. It was also a warning signal, as London silver brokers Mocatta & Goldsmid Ltd. put it with characteristic British understatement, that "those, who take a longer view are inclined to foresee a deficiency of silver." Consumption of silver in industry and in coinage is far outrunning mine production (see chart), and London silver merchants are convinced that...