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When the need for reruns runs out, Ampex may be busier than ever. At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago last week, Ampex engineers showed off new gear that promises to greatly expand the versatility of television. Most impressive of the items is a $65,000 combination camera and videotape recorder (VTR) that will enable a single roving newsman to record news events on tape for immediate broadcast. The 50-lb., battery-powered pack can tape up to 20 minutes of black-and-white action on a single reel, does away with the gear-laden truck and crew...
...South Vietnamese officials met on Nimitz Hill, the U.S. naval headquarters overlooking the Philippine Sea. Also in clear view from the spacious verandas on the Hill was a tangible reminder of the larger stakes-and risks-in the Viet Nam war: the Soviet trawler Gidrofon, laden with electronic snooping gear, lying just beyond the three-mile limit in order to monitor U.S. B-52 flights to Viet Nam and track the six Polaris subs based at Guam...
...followed its trajectory back into the atmosphere, the craft moved its control flaps, turned, and detoured 500 miles before returning to its original course and splashing down in the ocean near Kwajalein Island. Though the SV-5D sank, and was lost when heavy seas ripped away its flotation gear, its otherwise successful flight brought closer the day when man can first steer it through space...
...lanky (6 ft. 3½ in., 167 Ibs.) Negro who wears sun glasses "for personality" and is so relaxed that he often catnaps for ten or 15 minutes before a race. Smith is called "Jet Gear" by rival sprinters-because of his huge stride (8 ft. 11 in.) and incredible acceleration. "Other sprinters reach their top speed at 75 yds, and then decelerate," says his coach, Lloyd ("Bud") Winter. "Tommie is still accelerating at the end of 100 or 220 yds. He can sustain a speed of 26 m.p.h...
...already has more acts going than the Ed Sullivan Show. Beyond its established operations in radio and TV, phonograph records and technological R. & D., it has 1) a quartet of companies that make drums, banjos, electric guitars, violin strings and other musical gear, 2) a pair of small Los Angeles producers of educational films, 3) Creative Playthings, a Princeton, N.J. maker of instructional toys and 4) the New York Yankees, who have been teaching the first baseman's trade to their brawny but brittle superstar, ex-Outfielder Mickey Mantle, in order to preserve his ailing legs-and possibly...