Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel, where flags flew at half-staff in mourning, Premier Levi Eshkol vowed that "the Lord shall avenge their blood." Israelis speculated on earthly reprisals, from bombing the 17,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan to knocking out Baghdad TV. However, the executions presented Israel with a cruel dilemma: any reprisal would inevitably endanger the 2,500 Jews still living in Iraq...
...influence of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio becomes more pervasive, judges are locking up juries with increasing frequency in long criminal trials to prevent them from hearing or reading comment that might influence them. Even when they are not sequestered, jurors in such cases can look forward to an experience that is usually grueling-and sometimes disillusioning...
...Viet Nam, an Army photographer shoots sharp reconnaissance pictures despite the vibration of his small observation plane. From a shaky and make shift platform in Washington, a TV camera crew gives viewers a clear close-up portrait of Richard Nixon making his inaugural address. In North Miami, a policeman with a television camera takes shots showing distinct facial features of individuals creating a civil disturbance hundreds of feet below his quivering helicopter. In these and dozens of other applications, a remarkable new optical system is providing clear and steady images under circumstances that ordinarily cause blurred photo graphs or jiggling...
...earlier attempts to overcome the problems caused by vibration or rapid motion, the armed forces and movie and TV companies set up their cameras and other optical devices on gyroscopically stabilized platforms that tilted to compensate for any disturbing motion. But the platforms weighed hundreds of pounds and were both expensive and difficult to install. So engineers at the Dynasciences Corp. in Blue Bell, Pa., decided to take a radically new approach. Instead of steadying the viewing instrument, they decided, it might be more practical to stabilize the image by bending light beams from the target so that they would...
...course," he adds ruefully, "there was no TV. We got no radio coverage and no headlines at all." More discouraging than media coverage was the response of other blacks. "They did not have any interest in direct action, civil disobedience, and certainly not nonviolence. Not until 1956, with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, did nonviolence capture the imagination of the press and the world, thanks especially to Dr. King's charismatic leadership...