Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera." The committeemen were also TV-wise enough to save the top witnesses until last, sprang the taped phone conversations at precisely the proper dramatic moment, drowning out racy epithets with an electronic beeper signal. Said Schearer: "The Army-McCarthy hearings had its 'Point of Order' slogan. All we've been able to come up with in this one is 'Son of a beep...
...Friendship, friendship, friendship!" chanted the 130,000 East Germans on signal from their Communist cheerleaders, "The friendship of our two peoples is one of the great achievements of our time," cried Nikita Khrushchev, and his voice boomed through the loudspeakers to the factory workers, government employees and militiamen herded in ranks into East...
...identify the returning message, Columbia scientists can "hold" the signal for a relatively long time ("the major fraction of a second"). "We can keep the signal 'standing still' long enough to identify it against background interference," explains one scientist...
Nicknamed ORDIR (omnirange digital radar), the new signal technique cannot be applied to existing radar systems. ORDIR's range is still secret, but it will "multiply" the present top range of radar, which can now pick out an airplane at 200-300 miles. In addition, ORDIR's high sensitivity is expected to track such rapid velocity objects as intercontinental missiles and earth satellites. Eventually, aircraft may be equipped with miniaturized ORDIR. But the system is still being developed and refined; no production contracts have been made...
Revolutionizing radar may just be the start for ORDIR. The device's distinctive signal can be applied to many communication systems, will be especially helpful in weak signal situations. One possible use in the future: flashing a signal to earth from a satellite. Concludes Columbia's Dean Dunning: "The system seems to alter the whole concept of how we're going to communicate over long distances and in outer space...