Word: cq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, the New York Exchange has listed 47 new companies, compared with 59 in all of 1963. This week two more names-Rayette and First Western Financial-go on the Big Board, and on Sept. 8 Communications Satellite Corp. will make its debut with the tape initials CQ, the ham radio code for "if you hear me, come in." The American Exchange is picking up new listings even faster: 57 this year v. 31 in a comparable period last year. But there is still a lot more to come: of the nation's 1,200,000 corporations, only...
Highway Patrol. FCC rules prohibit anything but messages of a substantive nature on CB. But that scarcely diminishes the CBers' compulsion to put out CQ ("Anybody listening?") calls, to discuss endlessly the merits of their equipment, to exchange recipes or just to chat...
...CQ Plus IQ. City and Country owes its existence to Adolf Hitler. In 1936, the Nazis chased out Roeper's father...
...from $600 to $800 a year). Wealthy parents sponsor many other such kids. A brotherhood of brains unites them all-the measure of which is that only 87 out of 420 bright applicants hurdled the entrance exams last year. One reason is that Roeper also insists on a high CQ (creativity quotient), determined in part by how imaginatively applicants tackle IQ tests. "We don't take children who are brilliant but incapable of original thought," says Roeper...