Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that handsome, red-haired John Freeman became a nationwide celebrity though British viewers of his astringent Face to Face interview show each week seldom saw anything but the back of his head as the cameras zoomed in for closeups of the object of his relentless inquisitorial style. One TV star burst into tears when questioned about his homosexual inclinations. Nixon, who submitted to a Freeman interview in 1951, impressed the future ambassador as "a very good subject indeed," even though they were poles apart in their political views...
...walked through the store, John was followed every step of the way by closed-circuit TV cameras that transmitted his image to a monitoring room upstairs. He found the Protectalarm, pulled out his checkbook, and waited patiently while a new clerk figured out how to work the still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded...
...possibility of life on Mars. Their cameras, which can pick out features twelve times smaller than Mariner 4 could see, will nonetheless be unable to distinguish objects less than 900 ft. across. Says Robert Leighton, a California Institute of Technology physicist who is in charge of Mariner's TV experiments: "At the worst, we should be able to kill a lot of old legends about the dark lines being canals carrying water from polar ice caps to oases in the desert-or the ones that say the vast regions that change color every spring are vegetation...
...riddle of life on Mars will probably not be solved until at least 1973, when versatile "Project Viking" capsules ejected from still another pair of orbiting spacecraft are scheduled to make soft landings on the surface of the planet. In a search for any obvious evidence of life, TV cameras aboard the landers will take pictures of the immediate surroundings. Delicate instruments will sniff and analyze the atmosphere at ground level. Mechanical devices will gulp up, digest and chemically analyze Martian soil for clues to life. In their findings, relayed back to Earth by radio, man may find the exciting...
...airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto it-is by far the most effective device yet developed to produce electronic sounds. Besides serving as an "orchestra" for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows and the clarion call that heralds Westinghouse television commercials. The most spectacular application of the Moog to date is Composer Walter Carlos' electronic "orchestration" of ten Bach compositions for a Columbia LP called Switched-On Bach. The album has sold nearly 150,000 copies in four months, which...