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...wire room, 22 brand-new Teleprinter machines can be put into immediate, two-way communication with offices all over the world-a tool available to the editors of no other magazine. Through the ceilings, pneumatic tubes carry copy from writers to copy desk, to editors et al. As the first week moved toward its deadline, writers fed their material into the tubes and paled with fear that the entire March 21 issue would become jammed and stay forever in the ceiling. But at press time the copy was ready and printed...
Ever since the first satellites took to space, there has been talk of using them as radio communication links. This week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that two-way communication via a satellite was probably accomplished for the first time by two 17-year-old radio hams...
Soifer wrote a detailed report and submitted it to M.I.T.'s famed electronics expert, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner. While verifying Soifer's claim of having made the first known two-way radio communication via satellite, Wiesner is not sure that the signals were reflected by a satellite's ionized trail. They may have been re-radiated by the antennas of one of the passing satellites...
Iron-jawed, pipe-smoking Orlando Winfield Wilson, 59, California-educated and veteran of 19 years of police work, pioneered much of modern police technology (two-way radio nets, three-wheeler motorcycles, lie detectors, police schools, etc.) during the eleven years (1928-39) he spent building the Wichita, Kans. force into a model outfit. A World War II colonel in the U.S. Army, he organized military police systems in England and Italy, later Germany. As dean of the University of California's School of Criminology in Berkeley, Wilson was called in by 13 North American cities from Birmingham to Vancouver...
...fancy green eight-speed-gear bicycle. Once, when he flew back from a U.S. trip, his wife met him at London Airport. To make up for the exercise he had missed in America, they tramped the 15 miles home. Their fine Georgian mansion in Belgravia has a two-way frontdoor microphone, three dining rooms, and a $7,000 kitchen where Marples cooks midnight snacks for fellow Ministers ("After all, cooking's no art-merely applying heat to food...