Word: beep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adalbert Schaede have developed a device called a Cardiomed that monitors the working heart and tells when it is not beating at the proper rate. Not much larger than a billfold, the battery-operated gadget checks on the heart through electrodes stuck on the chest. It emits a single beep whenever the heart rate falls below a predetermined lower limit, a double beep whenever it rises above a preset ceiling. Doctors who have experimented with the device (retail price: $280) find it particularly useful for getting their cardiac patients started on post-attack exercise programs...
...Jerry Schneider, a 21-year-old U.C.L.A engineering graduate, studied Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's computer by posing first as a journalist and later as a customer. He learned enough to place commercial orders for telephone equipment simply by punching the right beep tones on his own touch telephone. He then picked up the equipment and sold it through a dummy firm. Incredibly, the telephone company let his unpaid bills accumulate for three years. The Los Angeles district attorney charged that Schneider stole $1,000,000 worth of goods in that manner, and the engineer drew...
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...only thing rapid Ralph wants to slow down is his mouth. He is now learning, he says, "not to talk so much." But then someone asks him about his hitting and beep! beep! he's off again. "Hey, man, I haven't been around the league yet and seen all that great pitching. Why, I've just been lucky. I might go into a terrible slump and fall all the way down to .300. I'll tell you one thing, I won't play up here if I only...