Word: cb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STAGE WHISPERS. Hard by the upper-level entrance to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station is a stone arch. By stationing themselves at one corner and partners some 50 ft. away, visitors can articulate messages sotto voce-and have them delivered with the fidelity of a CB receiver...
...side, raced around barefoot and carefree. Brother Billy, a Georgia "good ole boy" who runs the family warehouse and a local service station, bantered with the press about the words Cast Iron emblazoned on the T shirt that stretched over his developing paunch. Explained Billy: "It's my CB radio handle. Everybody calls me that because when the fellas come by my place, I'll drink whatever they're drinking -Scotch, bourbon, gin, vodka, blend, anything. So everybody says I've got a cast-iron stomach-which I have...
Living in the midst of "The Bodacious New World of CB" [May 10], I can no longer enjoy uninterrupted entertainment from my radio or televison. For instance, the beginning of my favorite late-night TV show more often than not sounds like this: "Mary Hartman, c'mon, good buddy!" Simultaneously, the picture reception becomes more scrambled and disoriented than Mary Hartman herself. What makes you think that "TV is, after all, a nonparticipant pastime...
True, CBs may some day be required equipment on all cars, but when my car is sold, its history will read "Driven by a little old lady CB never turned...
Potty Mouths. The real CB land has more sinister denizens. Police departments across the country report that mobile radios are being used increasingly in holdups and burglaries. CB sets themselves have become the favorite target of street thieves; 500 CB thefts were reported in Los Angeles during a three-month period. Game poachers use CB to outwit conservation officers. Though the California department of fish and game frequently changes its code, admits one officer, "poachers seem to know what we're doing before we do." Prostitutes ("pavement princesses") who plug their charms on CB have become so common that...