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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Norman Vincent Peale, 62, a longstanding Republican whose Protestant following rivals Billy Graham's as the largest in the U.S. His nationally syndicated column, Confident Living, appears in 196 newspapers. His radio show, The Art of Living, is broadcast on some 60 NBC stations. His monthly magazine, Guideposts, reaches far and wide across the land. His church, Manhattan's Marble Collegiate, is filled to overflowing for each of his two Sunday sermons. He has sold more than 4,000,000 hard-covered copies of his books, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...
...dissident members of Lumumba's Cabinet to join him in the plot. As night fell, he quietly went to the studios of Radio Leopoldville to deliver his message to the nation, carefully tape-recording his words 20 minutes in advance so he could get away before they were broadcast...
...Summer Olympic Games in Rome (CBS). A half-hour wrap-up will be broadcast some time between 11 n m and 12 midnight...
...satellite circled the earth once every 90.6 min. at an altitude of 198.8 miles, its powerful radios broadcast its presence to listening stations all over the world. A ham radio operator in Cleveland tracked its course across the summer sky for a full eleven minutes. On its 18th pass around the world, an electronic command flashed up from earth, triggered rockets that altered the satellite's course and pointed it back toward earth. A quick blast from retrorockets slowed its descent, and a special thermal shield protected the satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent...
...chair, his glasses bouncing on his nose. "It's in orbit," he cried. "Echo is in orbit." An hour later, a familiar voice filled the room : "This is President Eisenhower speaking." The President's words, spoken into a White House tape recorder months before, had just been broadcast from Goldstone, Calif., and had carried clearly across 2,500 miles of space to Holmdel's horn-shaped antenna. It was a major space-age breakthrough. After one earlier failure, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration had successfully launched an Echo satellite, a huge, metal ized balloon capable...