Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Girls will first formulate a program then dial the central computer's number and type out their program and data on telephone-typewriter unit. The computer will type the answers back to the dorm extension...
...companion, an Air Force psycholo gist named Sheldon Freud ("a very dis tant cousin of Sigmund - fifth or sixth"), answered promptly: "Sit down and we'll order coffee." While they sipped their coffee at Doney's, the first man checked the dial on a small instrument hooked to his belt. He was noting his temperature. There was a wire leading from the gauge down his trousers to a rectal thermometer...
...Dial for the Answer. Business some time ago began using computer centers to process data cards, count receipts or keep track of airline reservations from distant offices. Time sharing goes much beyond that. It links up as many as 500 widely separated customers with one large computer, lets each feed its own problems to the machine by tele phone through a simple typewriter con sole. The time-sharing computer can an- swer questions in microseconds, is able to shift back and forth swiftly among the diverse programming needs of many companies, small and large...
...this season, Gottfried has informed his readers that "Arlene Francis has the vocal range of a telephone dial tone," that Pickwick's "cast, whether it is singing, dancing, talking or just plain standing around, always seems to be just plain standing around," and that the Danton's Death lead, Alan Bergmann, "has a face that not even a fly could twitch-there is not an expression, a glance, an emotion that could cross it (not even, I suspect, a shadow...
...football failures. At 6 ft. and 181 lbs., Hayes was also one of the smallest men on the Cowboys' roster, and in early practice sessions he couldn't do anything right. "He batted down the ball instead of catching it," recalls Dallas Flanker Buddy Dial. "He looked like he belonged on defense...