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3 Educational TV
The ETV stations, all affiliates of the Center, now number 29. It is expected that all will carry the five programs. As a supplementary service, NBC owned-and-operated stations and many NBC network affiliates in areas which the ETV outlets do not cover will be furnished, on request, kinescopes of the programs for replay on a sustaining basis with a minimum l4-day delay from time of the original live telecast.
THIS PLANET EARTH
"IGY: A Small Planet Takes a Look at Itself” will deal each week with a specific aspect of the International Geophysical Year. There will be explanation and illustration of the most signifi¬ cant features of the present body of man's knowledge of the earth, description of the many gaps in that knowledge, and account of the methods by which IGY scientists hope to fill in or bridge those gaps. The format will regularly embrace film coverage of key IGY activities, demonstration with models and use of the Geophysical Relief Globe, sixfeetthree -inches in diameter, most accurate and detailed repre¬ sentation of the earth's surface in existence.
Noted scientists and leading IGY figures - one a week -will be Prank Blair's guests. Among them will be Dr. Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the U.S. National Committee for the IGY and member of the department of physics at the University of California, who will take
part in the first, ninth and tenth sessions.
The topics, in turn, will be (l) "The Quest,' comparison 01
the nature of the universe with that of the earth, summary of the fund of unanswered questions concerning the earth, outline of how IGY is
attacking these questions; (2) "The Oceans,” (3) "The Ends of the
Earth” (The Antarctic), (4) "The Face of the Land,” (5) "The Tremblinj
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