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...average weekday, about 4000 people dial 495-1000 (the University's general number), 495-5000 (student information), 495-6000 (Business School information), 495-7000 (the Harvard and Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory), and 495-8000 (Radcliffe information), all of which connect to the operators' office. Each operator sits in front of a long bank of flashing lights and colored buttons, wearing a clip-on earphone and a near-invisible, transparent, cable mouthpiece that keeps her hands free. When a call comes in, the console emits a faint beep and the operator answers it with the press of a button...
...know a lot of them just by the pattern of the numbers. Like I'll know a number is a box in the top corner--something like that." She stops and thinks for a moment, and then breaks out laughing. "I guess I'd be totally shot on a dial phone...
...where the creators of Sesame Street are perfecting computer software programs that they expect to sell to the general public. Scores of children sit in communion with batteries of special computers. The keyboards are arrayed with numbers, arrows and letters from A to Z in alphabetical order. In the Dial-A-Muppet game, Oscar the Grouch might pop up at command, grumbling encouragement. A science game called Spotlight utilizes a ray of light and two mirrors to illustrate how beams can bounce across space. The player manipulates the spotlight to illuminate a character named Steve waltzing back and forth across...
...goals are more diffuse. In addition to performing a public service, the third-place network wants to arouse interest in its new fall series among the young viewers who control the TV dial in many homes. For the celebrities it was an unpaid labor of dedication. Most were recruited by Evans' co-producer Cathy Lee Crosby, star of ABC'S stunt show, That's Incredible! All attested that they do not use drugs and promised further time to the Get High on Yourself Foundation, headed by Crosby. Says Bob Hope: "It is a problem that hits close...
...soap companies, though, believe that liquid soap will completely replace the bar. The reason: liquid soap is inconvenient to use in a shower or bath. Said a top soap executive: "We don't think it will go much further. Its use is too limited." Armour-Dial, though, is advertising its bar-shaped squeeze bottle of liquid soap as equally suitable for both shower and sink...