Word: splashdown
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When its cameras and microphones are on hand to catch the unfolding drama of a major event, TV news re porting is at its best. From the pageant ry of a President's funeral to the suspense of a space-shot splashdown, the story is brought to the home screen with startling intimacy. The capabilities of the big eye seem virtually unlimited -and judging from the advance fanfare, the networks went all out to exploit those capabilities on last week's elections. But the cameras and the news casters muffed the story...
...various manufacturers who have contributed to the space capsule. With 30-to 40-man staffs in Viet Nam, CBS and NBC spent over $500,000 apiece on war coverage last year. With the help of the Early Bird communications satellite, TV managed live coverage of the Gemini 6 splashdown...
...techniques they must master and the troubles they must overcome before landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth. The practice paid off handsome ly. From its improbably precise launch, made within a tiny, two-second "win dow" of time, to its all-but-perfect splashdown 21 miles from the recovery carrier Guam, Gemini 11 proved to be an able instructor indeed...
...automatic re-entry system that the astronauts sarcastically call "the chimp mode." Controlled by Gemini's onboard computer, it fired the spacecraft's thrusters at the proper time to correct its attitude and direction. Its value was evident. For it guided the relaxed astronauts to a splashdown closer to the recovery carrier than ever before in the U.S. manned spaceflight program...
Summer, Brown's sixth film, is an uncritical ode to sun, sand, skin and surf that first came to light on the West Coast lecture circuit, proved its box-office potential with a splashdown in landlocked Wichita, Kans. Now audiences everywhere, surf-bored by the dry run of Hollywood's beach-party musicals, may relish the joys of Summer as it follows a pair of skillful California surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a three-month, round-the-world tour in search of the perfect wave...