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...program, called Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP), operates primarily by word of mouth, White said. He cited three methods of soliciting families--hospital maternity wards, pediatricians and the school system...
...BEEP got underway in September 1971 when it received planning funds from foundations and other sources. Additional money to implement the project came through in September 1972, and in March 1973, the program distributed its first set of instructions...
Member families receive unlimited access to BEEP resources, including films and reading collections on infant and child development...
...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...