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...populist community of the air -using many CB sets with illegally high power output-has overflowed the banks of its 23 federally assigned channels, filling the air with errant electromagnetic waves. Complaints from TV, radio and even stereo users are flooding Federal Communications Commission offices across the land. Some vigilantes with axes and sledges have invaded base stations (home-based CB transmitters) to smash offending sets...
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...