Word: watt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bell on the right is the most exciting to watch. A sleeper in the offense, he has lively finesse bringing the ball down the field and enough speed to slip behind the fullbacks for the quick score. He will be complemented on the left by either Eric Pope, Doug Watt, or Jimmy Carrow...
Clocking the Signal. Celestial radar mapping is based on the same radio-echo techniques used in plane spotting and ship navigation. But bouncing radar waves off planets requires far more power and precision. For the Venus experiment, the Goldstone installation operated at 100,000 watts, twice the power of the largest U.S. commercial radio stations. When the signals came back 41 minutes later, they measured just a tiny fraction of a watt...
Another recent headache has been Herbert's pair of 15-watt "Redifor" army radios. For the past four days, fierce geomagnetic storms have prevented Freddy Church from receiving even a routine fix on the camp's drifting position. Even more powerful transmitters located on the nearby U.S. ice island T-3 have recently failed to reach the Naval Arctic Research Lab here...
Church simply broadcasts his message on a 1,000 watt transmitter near Barrow and Herbert acknowledges by tapping out the letter "R" for a few minutes on the one field radio that still operates. Every once in a while, a few of Herbert's weak signals, the only contact between these four men and the rest of the world, penetrates the radio noise...
Spreading Out. After 19 years of building almost entirely in Southern California (20,000 homes, 5,000 apartments, 52 mobile home parks), Watt has expanded swiftly since joining Boise Cascade in 1966. President Ray A. Watt, 48, a former Douglas Aircraft plant official, has doubled his executive team to a total of 16 men, started several new projects in Northern California, and spread out to Seattle. Next year, he expects to begin building more homes in Chicago and Washington. Watt thus joins the small but growing group of big-volume builders whose ties with capital-rich corporations are enabling them...