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Dives & Loops. To learn more about the moth's methods of escape, the two scientists set up a floodlight and trained a camera on its beam. When an insect flew across the floodlit area, the operators opened the camera's shutter and turned on their electronic beeper to simulate a cruising bat. "Many insects." say Roeder and Treat, "showed no change in flight pattern when they encountered the sound. In others, the changes in flight path were dramatic in their abruptness and bewildering in their variety. One of the commonest reactions was a sharp power dive into...
What was immediate and sure was the beeper's psychological impact. In many quarters U.S. discomfiture was greeted with open glee. RUSSIANS RIP AMERICAN FACE, headlined Bangkok's Sathiraphab, and in Beirut a university professor said wryly of his Arab students: "You would have thought they launched it themselves." But nowhere was the beeper's impact so ominous as in the neutral nations of Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less...
...orations geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera." The committeemen were also TV-wise enough to save the top witnesses until last, sprang the taped 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...
...Wilfred Beeper Feiga, of Worcester...
...City Bank of Jersey City closed its doors yesterday, the president, cashier and book-beeper of the institution having dishonestly appropriated about $50,000 of its funds to their...