Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heart of the starlight scope is its image-intensifier tube, a sturdy combination of the home TV screen and miniaturized space-age electronics. Focused sharply by the scope's front lens, the slightest flickers of light are directed against a chemical film, causing it to discharge electrons. Boosted along by a 15,000-volt electrostatic field, those electrons smack into a phosphorcoated screen whose light then jars loose still another flock of electrons. The process is repeated three times, and the high-voltage electron acceleration, or energy buildup, produces a progressively brighter image. Besides the light, the only other...
...opium of the people nowadays seems to be astrology. Just about every U.S. newspaper and women's magazine runs a horoscope column, so eventually the zodiac was bound to cloud over the TV screen. WPIX-TV became the first to capitalize on the astral preoccupation when it began inserting horoscopes into station breaks last January. That feature became so popular that WPIX hired Harper's Bazaar Horoscoper Xavora Pové to turn out a weekly 30-minute series. Miss Pove, an astrology devotee since her days at Sandusky High in Ohio (where she was known as Rosemary Schultz...
...format is similar to What's My Line? and all the other TV guessing games. A panel of four zodiac buffs query a celebrity guest on his personal traits and then try to divine the element and sign under which he was born.* Panelists are on their honor to disqualify themselves if they know the birth date of a guest. The questions run from "Do you like money?" to "What one thing would you change about your husband?" The answers are generally guarded. Asked to describe themselves in a word or two, Guests Ed Sullivan and Jack Benny coyly...
...lasted only 15 minutes, but Isabel and Joseph Garrett will undoubtedly remember it as the best TV program of their lives. The Garretts, a Negro couple seeking to adopt a child, were seated in the Buffalo offices of the Erie County Children's Aid Society. On screen, they saw a video-tape recording of Amy, 2½, also a Negro, who had been given away by her mother at birth, raised in a foster home, and was now up for adoption in Wilmington...
Observed by the cameras in a high school TV workshop, the little girl leafed through picture books, ran, jumped, laughed and turned somersaults. "Boy!" exclaimed Mrs. Garrett. "She's just what the doctor ordered...