Word: televison
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...moments of national drama Americans stop their lives and turn on their televison sets. Last week, when President Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection, the network political experts were as flummoxed as the viewers. But four nights later, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated television was in total command. Clearly, TV newscasters are not yet up to snap punditry; but they have mastered the art of reflecting events when dramatic action breaks...
...station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth, 45-year-old Edward Nicholas will get a block of stock and a starting salary close to the $30,000 he drew down...