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Air traffic control

Description: Air traffic control operations at Logan Airport. Sperry Rand UNIVAC computer. Scan on circular radar screen shows aircraft position and flight identification. Controller gives instructions via headset to individual planes to adjust heading and speed. Nine controllers ensconced in dark room.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1977

East Boston resident vs. Massport

Description: Federal Aviation Administration. East Boston residents sing a song protesting incursion of airport into their neighborhood (Neptune Rd. East Boston). David Davis, Tom O'Neill, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Fred Salvucci all seen. Interview with a woman about plane noise and eminent domain. She feels that the people in the neighborhood are being uprooted. Interview with a man on noise abatement and eminent domain for Logan expansion. Residents would like to prevent the destruction of their neighborhood. Interview with other longtime residents complaining about Massport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1977

Logan airport

Description: Airplanes in sky approaching Logan airport, landing on runways, viewed from East Boston. Plane taxiing and taking off. Delta and American Airlines hangars. United jets.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1977

National Weather Service

Description: National Weather Service station at Logan Airport. Many teletypes printing out forecasts and conditions: “blizzard warning.” Page of high and low temperatures for Caribbean and Central American resort areas in Fahrenheit and Celsius (centigrade). Plot maps with isobars. Wind speed and direction gauges. Man at computer with old CRT monitor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1977

Seabrook aerial

Description: Interiors of airplane on runway. Passing airplanes on runway; taking off, landing. Aerial view of Suffolk Downs, Revere Beach, Nahant, Seabrook, New Hampshire. Ocean, houses near beach, serpentine inlets, rough terrain, dense treetops, construction site.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/13/1977

Suffolk Downs

Description: B-roll of horse racing at Suffolk Downs. Spectators along the track. Tote board shows odds. Jockey dismounts and removes saddle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1977

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Mort Zuckerman withdraws development plan for Park Plaza; comments from Mayor Kevin White, City Council President Joseph Tierney; Park Plaza environs, Trailways bus terminal, WEZE radio sign. (Karin Giger) 2) Gov. Michael Dukakis explains proposal for economic development aided by federal grants. 3) How meteorological forecasting is done; instruments at Logan Airport land station of National Weather Service; teletypes printing conditions; windshield wipers; Norm MacDonald. (Mike Kolwich) 4) DPU commissioner Reginald Lindsay on new rules for mediating disputes with New England Telephone. 5) Interview with economist Carolyn Shaw Bell on effect of Christmas shopping season. 6) Liability of ski area operators; Rep. Dennis Duffin; amateur downhill skiers on slopes. (Charlie Stuart) 7) Anchor Chris Lydon tells story of going to a Seattle jazz club with Georgia governor Jimmy Carter to hear Billy Eckstine.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/19/1977