Word: connection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pocket radios connect each policeman with the Harvard police office in Grays Hall and permit speedier reporting of disturbances and dispatching of policemen to The Scene of the Crime...
...iron nest, the trailer is peeled off and trundled away. White tarpaulins drop over the missile's exposed side to keep off rain and the Cape's corrosive salt mists. Inside, casually competent engineers and technicians in white hard hats begin to spin the spidery wires and connect the delicate electronic mechanisms that will control the bird. Capsule specialists poise their instrument-packed pod atop the rocket to check it out. If all goes well, fuel specialists attach the plumbing that will fill the projectile's maw with explosive cargoes of liquid oxygen and kerosene, or intractable...
...country is mostly salt pan and desert, barely suitable for cattle grazing. In the east, near Francistown, Serowe and the tiny, torrid new capital of Gaberones, rainfall permits some crops, mostly maize, sorghum, cowpeas, pumpkins and tobacco. Only a single railroad, 394 miles long, and a highway connect the north and south of the protectorate. East-west roads branch off this central spine, but typically peter out into sand within 40 or 50 miles. A few mining companies are probing Bechuanaland's deposits of manganese, copper, silver and gold, but it will be years before they...
With the new IBM Market Data System, the process will be this: when an .investor calls in to ask for a stock quote, the broker can press a button on the base of his telephone and automatically connect into a computer at the exchange. He will then dial a four-digit number to identify which stock he wants to learn about (each of the 1,606 stocks on the Big Board has its own identification number). A recorded voice will instantaneously recite the stock's up-to-the-second price and volume, as well as its opening price...
Dean Monro last week endorsed the Chalmers proposal and said that he would like to see it attempted, with the reservation that "it might be administratively unmanageable." Monro suggested that his distribution system "does not connect with anything in the Doty Report...