Magyar News, 2004. szeptember-2005. augusztus (15. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

2005-01-01 / 5. szám

Two of Goldmark's equipments playing his records

used in Chrysler’s luxury cars, but was never successful enough.

Among the many inventions and experiments other interesting things came to life. One of these was the SpyStuff. While the LP marked his career watershed, Goldmark and the Research Center continued to chum out new technology, mostly in an effort to keep the organization solvent. In partnership with Lockheed and Eastman Kodak, CBS helped develop a video-transmission system for the first satellite-reconnaissance program, a technology used mostly to beam pictures of the Soviet Union back from space.

Also Goldmark's field sequential color-TV system eventually saw its days of

glory, as well. CBS and McMann proposed using Goldmark's technology for creating color video on the Apollo mission and was subsequently used on all of the Apollo flights.

To do all these things Goldmark had to put in an extreme amount of time. Naturally he expected his associates to be on the same level with him. But many of the engineers and researchers had families, of course, and couldn't give that same level of commitment. He could be very difficult about that. Strangely enough Goldmark, in fact, was married three times and divorced twice, and had six children by his first two wives. Looks like he was able to manage that part of his life, too.

When Goldmark died in car accident in Westchester County, N.Y., on Dec. 7, 1977, he was still working on new projects, including a two-way video-security system for the town of Stamford, Conn. Goldmark did all sorts of things in the audio and visual fields that were way ahead of their time. Just two weeks before his death, Goldmark was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Carter in a White House ceremony. He said: "People just weren't ready for many of the advances and, eventually, we caught up with Goldmark’s technology."

Enjoy your TV and audio players and say “thank you” to the Hungarians.

SEEING RED ABOUT THE PAPRIKA

Starting Oct. 28, the Hungarian government banned the sale of all paprika products because the level of aflatoxin, a toxic substance, exceeded the legal limits in the products of three paprika manufacturers, Kalocsai Fűszerpaprika Rt, Szegedi Fűszerpaprika Rt, and Sükösdi Házi Pirospaprika Kft. Mostly grains and peanuts are susceptible to the unknown infection, that is a carcinogen and can cause liver damage. Hungarian paprika, if handled according to regulations, is free from the infection. The toxin does not break down with cooking either, but it takes prolonged consumption of large quantities of infected paprika for it to be poisonous. The police launched an investigation to determine how it got into the country, where and how it was distributed. Consumer protection has started a nationwide control of the distribution of paprika. Authorities estimate there could be 70,000 stores in Hungary where they sell these products. The manufacturers will have to have each batch tested in accredited laboratories, then the decision to lift the ban will be done on a case by case basis, based on the outcome of these tests.

RIDING IN LUXURY

Traveling on the highway we have time to look at the different cars that share the road with us. If we put aside the many SUVs then we have a chance to see the “normal’ passenger cars. Among them recently there is one make that seems to be growing in numbers. This is the AUDI.

When we turn our heads to take a good look at one of the newest luxury cars we really don’t think of the old Rába cars built in Győr in the early 20th century. Now we could thank them for the AUDI TT sport cars.

The Audi Hungária Motor Kft has produced its 250,000th TT sports car. The assembly of the TT Coupé model started in April 1998 and 165,000 of them were produced, while the TT Roadster was launched in the fall of 1999 with 85,000 cars produced.

Audi has so far invested €35 million into this project and employs 300 people in Győr.

The Audi Hungária starting in 2007 will assemble more new car models. You will have a greater selection of Hungarian made cars. All you have to be sure of is to have enough money to buy them.

Looking for Debutants

The Pannónia American Hungarian Club will have the Cafe Budapest debutant dinner dance. At this event the young ladies stepping into society will be presented in a traditional, beautiful ceremonial. They will be guests for the evening in the exquisite setting of The Inn at the Longshore in Westport, CT.

The Dinner Dance will take place March 5, Saturday evening..

The debutants will receive previous instructions on the opening dance and the set-up of the evening.

For information please call 373-9958, or 372-8505, or 459-4391.

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