Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe girls dreading the walk to the Square tried vainly to call taxi companies, but overloaded phone wires as often as not refused to give even a dial tone. "Anyway," one Cliffie explained, "electricity freezes at five degrees...
...FALL OF JAPAN by William Craig. 368 pages. Dial...
Uncle T's enchantment with electronic gadgetry is evident the minute you walk into his studio. His engineer keeps a tape of electronic sounds running throughout the show, and when T is speaking, the tape channel fades in and out. A dial on the table where T sits controls the reverb chamber. A foot pedal sends his voice, or whatever is playing, underwater for "waa-waa" effect...
...GREAT BRAIN, by John D. Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mercer Mayer (Dial; $3.95). In Mormon Utah in 1896, Tom ("The Great Brain") is the craftiest kid around. Whether figuring a way to make money when his father gets the first flush toilet in town or teaching a one-legged boy how not to be "useless," Tom is very funny; the illustrations are excellent...
Equally hard to come by are the scores of games being aired at the same time on another network; the fear is that the rival might have a game more worth watching, and that the viewer, God forbid, would flip the dial. Late in one recent game an ABC announcer cried: "Here's another final in . . . It's -oh, I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to give any more scores...