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Vellucci said an anonymous telephone caller had called him yesterday, saying there was a prostitution price war in Central Square. Last night he joked that he was going to put the prices in line...
...1960s to summon doctors. Since then beepers have spread like electronic calculators-from some 33,500 in 1965 to an estimated 800,000 today, with production still growing at about 18% a year. About 500 U.S. companies now either manufacture beepers or operate beeper networks. In most systems, the caller dials a seven-digit number that feeds into a central computer. There the number is translated into a coded radio signal and fed by phone lines to a radio transmitter that sends the beep to the designated pocket receiver...
...uses for beepers are legion. Children in affluent La Jolla, Calif., get beeped home to dinner. Guests at Manhattan's Statler Hilton who expect important calls can rent beepers for $5 a day, then go sightseeing. By June, a caller will be able to beep from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles via satellite. A Boston narcotics peddler used top-line $300 models to keep track of his 13 pushers-until he went to jail and the pushers made off with the pagers. The users most thoroughly hooked on pocket page calls may be ... well, hookers. The gadgets...
Police evacuated the Freshman Union building early yesterday evening when an anonymous caller claimed a bomb had been placed there. As of midnight it was still unknown whether the building would be open for breakfast...
...There was real misrepresentation by these officials," Lamperti said. "The caller did not make it clear who he was or that he was soliciting for life insurance," he added...