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...long as Harvard’s dorm rooms remain cableless, such televisions tiffs will persist. But perhaps watching meatheads and ditzes battle over the TV is better than any prime-time show...

Author: By R. DREW Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Are You Ready For Some...Drama? | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...radio relay system connecting New York and Boston was demonstrated last week by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eight Jumps to Boston | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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