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Mariner's mission is manifold. During its journey away from the sun, it will radio back information on radiation, magnetic fields and micrometeorites. If all goes perfectly, it is supposed to, transmit data on the density of the Martian atmosphere that could be invaluable to U.S. scientists who are hoping to land a capsule there by 1969. As a final dividend, it will also try to take 22 still pictures with a television camera during a 30-minute flyby some 8,600 miles from the red planet. The pictures will be transmitted to earth from 150 million miles...
...latest pushbutton automation to provide a range of services as broad as electronic wizardry allows. This week, from the top of its 24-story brick-pile headquarters in lower Manhattan, the company will inaugurate its biggest diversification yet: a 7,500-mile $80 million transcontinental microwave system that will transmit teletype, telephone, facsimile or computer-tape messages with equal ease...
...Government thus far supervises only the 250 cable TV companies that are classed as common carriers because they use microwave equipment to pick up and transmit programs. Most companies use ordinary towers that require only a local franchise. Organized for as little as $250,000, CATV companies charge installation fees of $5.50 to $30, offer viewers excellent reception of up to a dozen channels for monthly rentals that average $5. The systems operate with a minimum of personnel and 98% efficiency, are expected to return investment within nine years...
Suddenly, it occurred to him that molecules and atoms are nature's original broadcasters. They transmit on their own characteristic frequencies whenever they change from one energy state to another. Why not put nature, instead of vacuum tubes, to work? Last week, 13 years later, Townes's answer to that question won him half the Nobel Prize in physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called his achievement a triumph of "quantum electronics," which was another way of saying that Townes's work had pointed the way toward masers (an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission...
...bubbles Student Taffy Squires. "But the hardest part is that there is nothing concrete to hold on to." The most concrete aspect of Pitzer is its first two buildings, a dormitory and a combination administration-classroom building, which are wired for closed-circuit television and tape recordings designed to transmit lectures, panel discussions and dramatic productions right into the girls' rooms. Teaching methods are mostly experimental. Anthropologist George Park has set out to prove that "education is the destruction of innocence," envisions a race-relations course that will generate an understanding of the motivations behind the White Citizens Councils...