Word: connect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtesy to a former prospective occupant, the White House switchboard has been handling any calls for Richard Nixon that come to NA 8-1414. Kennedy Administration telephone operators would ring Nixon's unlisted number, pass along the message, or connect the caller if the family approved. The service is now at an end. Nixon has changed his telephone number without telling the White House where he can be reached...
Mechanical failure was partially responsible for the devastating foil loss. Wires running up through the foilmen's clothing and passing to the tip of the weapon are kept taut by a spring-loaded reel which broke during the first round. The wires, which connect to flashing lights registering contact between the foil and the target, had to be hand-wound and interfered with the action...
...developing new uses for its products, e.g., Data Phone, which enables business machines to exchange information over its regular phone circuits. And from Bell Telephone Laboratories, the most advanced research facility in the world, comes an outpouring of new ideas. Some of the latest: pocket radio-telephones that will connect with any place in the world; communication satellites to instantly relay messages around the globe...
...system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets in Electronic Central office at Morris, is 12,000 tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second. Electronic "eyes and ears," called scanners, spring into action the instant a phone is taken off the hook, activating a photographic memory brain that contains more than 2,000,000 bits of information in a coded pattern of black and white...
...statement of Master Conway that "virtually unandmous" satisfaction prevails among the inhabitants of the Leverett Towers prompts me to offer a few words on recent Harvard architecture, and on the expansion of the college. I connect these two subjects because it would seem that "Towerism" is to be a vehicle for expansion, even if the tenth House, and others which appear to be forthcoming, are not constructed precisely like the Towers...