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...other members of Whitlock's committee will be R. Freed Bales, professor of Social Relations; Janet Fraser, director of Student Affairs in the Institute of Politics; Peter Goldmark '68, formerly of Mayor Lindsay's staff; Walter J. Leonard, assistant dean of the Law School; Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean for Student Affairs at the Medical School; and Representative Paul Sarbanes...
...Peter Goldmark of CBS Labs announces invention of Electronic Video Recording...
Born in Hungary, and possessed of a rich musical heritage (he enjoys playing his cello to his mother's violin accompaniment), the grey-haired Goldmark hardly seems the Edison-style scientific adventurer. But after studying physics at the University of Vienna, he became so captivated by television that he turned to electronics and moved to the U.S. in 1933 to apply for a job with RCA. He was blithely unaware of the Depression-until he was abruptly turned down. He finally joined CBS in the early days of broadcast TV. "We did everything-put on the show, ran transmitters...
Most Horrible Sound. At CBS, Goldmark's bursts of innovation keep management watchful. His first color-TV system, far simpler than today's color models, was rejected because it would have required the junking of all black-and-white broadcasting equipment then in existence. Though engineers had been working on long-playing records for years, Goldmark did not try his hand at it until he listened to a recorded Vladimir Horowitz concert and despaired at the periodic clunks of rejecting 78-r.p.m. records-"the most horrible sound man ever made." In 2½ years, he had compressed...
...Goldmark's EVR may send similar shock waves through CBS. EVR families could, presumably, not bother to tune in the network at all and instead rely on their own library of TV tapes. CBS President Frank Stanton answers that EVR is an "additive" that will complement TV, just as record players complemented radio. Still, CBS has protected its profits with an intricate tangle of patents. An agreement made with the New York Times for creation of the first EVR educational films, for example, provides that CBS will share with the Times in both production and profits. Eventually...