TV Frontier Is Fast Reaching Around World WASHINGTON, DC.—Television is pacing off new paths of commu nication over the face of the world with twenty-league boots. Only a quarter of a century ago, the first crude silhouettes appeared on glass screens in London, New York and Washington. This year, Tanganyikans may see a television show. At latest count, 17 countries other than the United State' have tele vision transmitters on the air. The list includes England, Fi ance, Ger many, Russia, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden. Switz erland, Czechoslovakia, Canada. Mexico, Cuba, Brazd, Argentina and Japan. As this country lifts its television freeze and opens the way for more than 2,000 stations at home, at least 13 additional nations are planning TV tests. Nigeria anl Morocco, Cyprus and the Dominican Repub lic. Thailand and India are among them. TV Won’t Bern! Unlike radio, a television broad cast Is limited by the fact that the earth is round. It’s signal can reach little beyond the visible horizon— perhaps 60 miles, or 20 leagues, at best. Then it shoots off into space. In conquering new fields, tele vision's towers are rising from deserts and jungles, seacoasts and mountaintops. Coaxial transmission lines—hoi- : low tubes carrying electronic im pulses at the speed of light—span the United States. Aboveground. 107 reflector-topped microwave towers zigzag between New York and San Francisco. Both systems carry tele vision programs to local transmit ting stations. Biilh have been seri ously proposed for sending TV around the world. 80 Million Americans More than half the people in the United States will be within range of television under the recent air wave allocations of the Federal Communications Commission Much higher percentages of population are already blanketed in such countries as England and the Netherlands. Within the coining year, the Voice of America estimated recently, ns many as 23.000.000 people in other countries will see TV regularly. Television is find ng strange and wonderful uses. A submarine sunk in the English Channel was found by a underwater "eye” last year. Surgeons in New York may watch a delicate heart operation taking place in Los Angeles. Customers can walk into a Lon don bank and see their balance sheets on a television screen, al though tiie files are kept 12 miles away. Factories, arsenals, atomic energy laboratories and electric power plants have put cameras to work as silent, unblinking watch men. The Army, Navy and many universities are teaching classes by television, foreshadowing the day when mass education in the na tion’s living rooms may be possible.

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