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Long-jump microwave beams are not likely to replace the short-jump relay systems: the power must be enormously greater (10,000 watts instead of half a watt), and the antennae must be great parabolic "dishes" 60 ft. in diameter. But long-jump has uses that are vitally important in military communication, where construction of short-range relay stations is impossible or impractical. For example the long-jump method could be used across the water gaps and wilderness stretches of arctic Canada, where it would make sense to relay to a rear headquarters the pictures picked...
...study of war to the knife in a large corporation, Patterns employed the same cast (Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Richard Kiley), to win the approval of those critics who had missed it earlier. But at week's end there was at least one strongly dissenting voice: the Watt Street Journal. In a long, viewing-with-alarm editorial, the Journal conceded the play's dramatic power but expressed shock at its ethical standards and concluded: ". . . It is a strange thing if this is what playwrights, critics and the public generally think of as the true mood, atmosphere and moral...
Extensive planning, naturally, lies behind the programs that WGBH-TV will present. The Museum of Fine Arts, for example, is installing a television control room, and at a cost of over $80,000 every gallery is being wired with camera cables and 9,000-watt lamps brilliant enough for color television. "The whole Museum will be a television studio, and we will be able to show all our exhibits in their native settings," explains William Dooley, the Museum's Director of Education. "It is one of the most startling innovations the Museum has accomplished since its founding...
...your excellent review of Scotland's contribution to Britain's prosperity, it might not have been out of place to record a truly remarkable fact concerning three men of outstanding achievement in 20th-century science: John Logic Baird in television, Sir Robert Watson-Watt in radar, and Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. All were born and bred north of the Tweed. This makes them British, but never English...
...Watt Cooler. To reduce the load on the electrical system of a house, General Electric announced a half-horsepower, low-wattage air conditioner that uses less current than a toaster or flatiron. Price: about...