Word: cb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...video-game consoles, which turn home TV screens into playing "fields" for tennis, hockey, Ping Pong (average price: $70). Sales of Citizens Band transceivers were boosted dramatically by gutted prices on current 23-channel gear, which becomes less desirable this week when the Government increases the number of CB channels to 40 (see story page 51). King's Department Stores, a Boston-based chain, cut the price of one popular CB rig from $159 to $59; one store sold 20 in two hours. Despite movement of such items, retailers are generally conservative as they enter 1977. There...
...Charlie Kaye 43 Keith Bassi MG 35 Lou Bernieri 75 Bob Skronski RT 77 Steve Kaseta 90 Sheldon Smith RE 91 Bob Baggott 91 Bill Crowley LLB 30 Joe Jason 52 Jeff Waller RLB 55 Tommy Joyce 24 Scott Rooth MB 23 Bill Emper 28 Chris Judge CB 18 Lou Rice 11 Kurt Nondorf HB 41 Andy Puopolo 35 Steve Skrovan S 17 Paul Halas
During the fracas, CB Fan Johnny Bench used radio jargon to downplay the importance of short wave in baseball. Said Bench: "It still comes down to the fact that someone has to throw the ball, someone has to hit it, and someone has to catch it. Do you copy, good buddy?" In the 1976 World Series, the Cincinnati Reds proved that they throw and hit and catch well enough to be copied into baseball lore...
...oversexed husband Charlie-shot in the groin in a tussle with Jimmy Joe's dad, Merle Jeeter-prepares stoically for television's first testicle transplant. As for good ole Merle, he becomes a "born-again" politician. Also tripping into view will be a Miss Tippytoes, a glamorous CB radio freak who Mary thinks has a handle on her husband Tom. Then there is Gore Vidal, who visits Fernwood to see if there is a book in the larger meaning of Mary's breakdown. Says Norman Lear, executive producer of MH2. "My bent as a mature human...
...much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed up for an official appearance in Birmingham driving a pickup truck complete with CB radio and gun rack...