Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market is Continental's "infinity transmitter." No bigger than a pair of back-to-back matchbooks, the transmitter can be quickly hidden inside the base of any telephone. Once installed, it can be monitored from thousands of miles away. The properly equipped eavesdropper need only dial the number of the bugged phone from any direct-dialing phone anywhere in the world, and stand ready to send a single-frequency tone down the line before the distant phone rings. That tone, created by blowing a pretuned whistle into the phone's mouthpiece, not only turns on the transmitter...
...INTERRUPTED JOURNEY by John ;. Fuller. 301 pages. Dial...
That fact was never so clear as it is this season. Though the three major networks have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on new programming, virtually none of the money has been worth a dial's twiddle, while at the same time five different "night-at-the-movie" slots on the networks have stayed securely tucked into the Top 15 most popular programs...
...Gerry Hahn, Violinist Mike White, Drummer Terry Clarke and Bassist Don Thompson-rallied with some surprises of their own. Turning to Handy's Scheme No. I, they erupted in a dreamy and delirious atonal free-for-all, creating a great whirl of sound, like a radio with the dial spinning at peak volume. Handy, looking like a Chinese Pope in his foot-high brocade hat, sketched high looping solos that trembled and fluttered. When it was over, the sellout crowd of 7,000 turned on a standing ovation that would have drowned out that...
...Golf Course. Dial phones-some 3,000 of them-are being installed, and Cavalrymen can tune in to Big Valley Radio, a twelve-hour FM station built by the troopers from scrounged equipment and featuring mainly rock 'n' roll tapes contributed by the men themselves. In the heat of An Khe's sunny clime, ice is still a luxury. When the Cav arrived, a local entrepreneur hauled in ice from Pleiku every day, most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show...