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