Word: televison
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...Moreover, unlike the video cassette recorder, the systems cannot record from television. Currently there are three videodisc machines on the market using laser vision and ten using a stylus. Despite exaggerated reports of the disc's demise, both the stylus and laser players are selling better than color televison did when it first appeared 18 years...
...Soviets, again, complained that the shuttle is mainly a military vehicle. But they did show 30 seconds of the landing on televison. Chinese Communist newspapers, though fascinated by the idea of products labeled "made in space," excoriated both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. for casting a "shadow of war" over space...
...stand to gain from television exposure, however brief. As recently as last October, the Judicial Conference of the U.S. reaffirmed its stand against cameras in federal courts as an inherent threat to fair trial. Almost 20 years ago, former Chief Justice Earl Warren told Friendly, then with CBS, that televison cameras would be on the moon before they would get inside the Supreme Court. It is more than 14 years, though, since a TV camera first reached the moon. -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Evan Thomas/Washington
Before he entered politics, McCall worked as a journalist and a televison commentator in Portland, and this background may have resulted in another of his idiosyncrasies: open press relations. Long before politicians began crooning about "government under glass" and "sunshine" laws, McCall was churning out ways to let the people in on the decision-making process. He opened his staff meetings to the press for instance. (At one such public session, the governor spent half an hour deciding whether to remove one welfare recipient's telephone. He eventually solved the dilemma by taking up a collection in the room...
Living in the midst of "The Bodacious New World of CB" [May 10], I can no longer enjoy uninterrupted entertainment from my radio or televison. For instance, the beginning of my favorite late-night TV show more often than not sounds like this: "Mary Hartman, c'mon, good buddy!" Simultaneously, the picture reception becomes more scrambled and disoriented than Mary Hartman herself. What makes you think that "TV is, after all, a nonparticipant pastime...