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Commercial radio stations, too, picked up sputnik's signals. "Listen now," said an NBC announcer, in a voice his listeners would not soon forget, "for the sound which forever more separates the old from the new." And over thousands of earthbound radios sounded the eerie beep . . . beep . . . beep from somewhere out in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Red Moon Over the U.S. | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

During the first night, the sputnik's familiar beep-beep must have been heard by radio or TV, by a great part of the world's population tone music-minded Swedish radio listener firmly asserted that the beep is in A-flat). U.S. experts could not tell at first whether the signal, which alternates between 20 and 40 megacycles, is a mere series of beeps, or whether it carries coded information from instruments in the satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Sputnik | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Allen Hynek, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's optical tracking program, revealed yesterday that three major radio installations--one in New York, one in Chicago, and one in Cambridge--which had previously been picking up the satellite's steady beep beep signal lost radio contact with the object late Monday night and yesterday morning...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Russian Satellite Sends Signals After Silence of Several Hours | 10/9/1957 | See Source »

...phone conversations at precisely the proper dramatic moment, drowning out racy epithets with an electronic beeper signal. Said Schearer: "The Army-McCarthy hearings had its 'Point of Order' slogan. All we've been able to come up with in this one is 'Son of a beep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: Morality Play | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Yeah. That dirty, rotten son of a beep has been here for three days; nobody knows where to contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Sharks | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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