Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address usually spoken in whispers, means what "Lyubyanka" means in Moscow: it is th.e headquarters of the Communist secret police. Boss of Andrassy ut 60 was Peter Gabor, onetime tailor's apprentice, who became a journeyman Communist and got his final training in Moscow. Gabor reached the zenith of his career at the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, where he produced evidence supposedly showing the cardinal's connection with U.S. diplomats. Under Gabor's regime, Andrassy ut 60, whose windowboxes were always bright with geraniums, became dreaded for merciless beatings and torture of prisoners...
...alumnae activities, which reached their zenith last Saturday on Alumnae Day at the Annex, have ended, and most of the visitors will have moved out of Briggs Hall by tonight or tomorrow night. Baccalaureate services on Sunday and rehearsals yesterday and today have gotten graduation events well under way for the seniors...
This unexpected news threw the whole television industry into a nervous dither. Even Zenith Radio Corp., builders of the TV color receivers used in Philadelphia, disparaged its own work. Zenith's supercharged President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. shrugged off the Philadelphia experiment because it was transmitted over a telephone line. "It is not broadcast television," he argued, "and it does not indicate that color television for the public is imminent." CBS, which pioneered in color television, had nothing...
...Zenith Radio stirred up a high wind and some heavy dust when it advertised that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing...
Beneath the charges and counter-charges one fact seemed clear: if TV transmission should change tomorrow to UHF, all sets (including Zenith's) would require conversion to the higher frequencies. Zenith's point apparently was that its set could be converted more quickly and inexpensively than the others...