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...schedule, I tend to let it pile up and do it all at once. I know it's terribly hard on my family and my staff, but it's too late to change now." Once a month he goes on a statewide radio-TV hookup to report on the $100 million-a-year public business that he runs. Handsome and easy-mannered, with . a personality made for TV, he refuses to use a script. He chats about a variety of governmental subjects, reads and answers some of his mail over the air and, to the amazement...
Delighted to be rid of him at last, the Nationalist government permitted Trevor Huddleston to preach his last major sermon over a national broadcasting hookup, but warned him not to discuss politics. He delivered a strong indictment of the government, and called apartheid "blasphemy" and "refusal of God's plan and purpose." That was not politics, he later told angry government officials, but simple Christianity...
...electric switches in their tips. Wires run down the fencers' arms and out the tails of their jackets to reels that are mounted at the end of the fencing strip. A solid touch with either épée sounds a buzzer and turns on a light. The hookup can distinguish between touches only one twenty-fifth of a second apart...
...hookup between the auditoriums was arranged to avoid recurrences of the near-riot which occurred last November when more than 5,000 people had to be turned away from Arnold J. Toynbee's lecture, Dow said...
White Light. The game generates considerable campus excitement and is played by a radio hookup between the competing schools and Quizmaster Allen Ludden in Manhattan. Ludden, a 37-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Texas, first throws out a "tossup" question; as soon as a player thinks he knows the answer he signals his referee to push the team's buzzer, which instantly lights a bulb in the Manhattan studio (white for the champion team, red for the challenger) and automatically cuts off the impulse from the other team. If the answer is right, it earns ten points...