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Free of Flak. The first such signal was flashed when Secretary of State Dean Rusk met Gromyko at the United Nations last month and found the atmosphere refreshingly free of polemic flak. Kremlinologists thought they detected an extra beep when Gromyko, in the midst of an otherwise vituperative speech to the General Assembly, remarked: "Even when other centers of international tension appear, Europe still remains the barometer of the world's political weather." That, in the convoluted language of Soviet diplomacy, appeared to mean that the Russians, whatever they may say in public, are tired of letting Viet...
...students also discovered, however, that they could dispense with all operators, inward and otherwise, on calls with in the United States. They merely had to beep a tone of the correct frequency into the telephone transmitter after dialing an appropriate code to connect them with a long distance trunk line...
...result of visual illusions that lead pilots astray. Last month the Air Transport Association announced that development of a practical, economical device is "now closer to realization than at any time in the past." The promising system is McDonnell Aircraft's "Eros" (for Eliminate Range System), which will beep a warning to pilots when two planes get on a collision course. It will also instruct pilots-by means of arrows on the instrument panel -which way to turn to avoid trouble. Everyone is trying to improve altimeters, which are tough to read and may have figured in the first...
...first the TV screen turned all grey. Then the image took shape, teasingly, as if appearing from behind a slow-parting curtain that moved from left to right. While faint beep-beep-beeps were heard in the background, the picture grew in a series of vertical lines...
Roar. Rattle. Bump-bump-bump. Bee-eep beep. Clang. Rat-tat-tat. The illuminated sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes...