Word: signal
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...carefully explained in Guam before jetting on to Manila, he intended to signal a reduction in the American military commitment to Asia. Above all, Nixon wants no more Viet Nams, and he has formulated new guidelines for U.S. policy designed to prevent any recurrence. His proposal: a "lower profile" for the U.S. in Asia (see following story). At stop after stop, Nixon reiterated what he told Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos: "Peace in Asia cannot come from the U.S. It must come from Asia. The people of Asia, the governments of Asia-they are the ones who must lead...
Traveling at the speed of light, the signal was picked up 1.3 sec later by the huge radio telescope at Goldstone, Calif., which has a dish-shaped antenna 210 ft. in diameter. Next, the signal was relayed to Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C., where the message was broken down into its individual parts and routed to Mission Control in Houston. The astronauts' voices then traveled via ordinary telephone lines to radio and TV stations in New York for rebroadcast throughout the U.S. and the world. In one of the longest roundabout routes in the history of radio...
...means of a backpack receiver of his own. Aldrin's voice, in turn, was broadcast to Armstrong by a tiny FM transmitter. It was Armstrong's backpack equipment, however, that converted Aldrin's voice back to a standard AM frequency, combined it with his own signal and fed it into the lunar module, which converted it back into FM for transmission to the earth. The intricate AM-FM system linking the two astronauts was devised to save the weight of an extra receiver...
...electronic wizardry was all the more impressive because the same carrier that transmitted voice signals to earth was made to handle TV as well. Although voices went to Goldstone, NASA technicians found that another 210-ft. dish antenna in Parkes, Australia, provided the best reception for the TV signal. From Parkes the signal was relayed overland to Sydney, flashed to the Moree Earth Station 200 miles to the north, beamed up to the Intelsat communications satellite 22,300 miles above the Pacific Ocean, relayed to Jamesburg, Calif., passed by microwave ground signal and coaxial cable to Houston and finally transmitted...
Coupled with Clark's death, that near-tragedy had a signal effect on Stewart. Off the track, the little (5 ft. 6? in., 148 lbs.) driver is all Scottish charm; he wears Savile Row suits and affects shoulder-length locks. When it comes to his profession, however, he is all caution and conservatism. The Belgian Grand Prix was canceled this year largely because of his argument that the race would be too dangerous on wet roads. He was among the first Grand Prix drivers to use the six-point-contact seatbelt, and he introduced the idea of remote-control...