Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smocked experts loaded the memory banks with the full texts of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, selected Faulkner, and the collected works of Erskine Caldwell. They programmed the machine with biographies of key characters. They set it for 1947 in rural Georgia, turned the sex dial to "low," and punched the button marked "1,000 pages." The highspeed printer began to chatter...
Some 6,000 Bellboys are already in use-mainly by doctors. There are 1,500 receivers in Washington alone, but Walter Gold is the only Star reporter so equipped. Anyone within some 16 miles of him can dial his number -which is one reason why Gold keeps that number a secret between him arid Kopeck. Both men find it extremely useful. Not long ago, the Bellboy's shrill signal sent Reporter Gold to the nearest telephone for this command from Editor Kopeck: "When you come in, bring me a hot pastrami...
...ELIAS FRIEDENSOHN, 40, like many other artists today, shifts easily between painting and sculpture. His delicate pencil drawings and scruffy oils, which emphasize "the masks people wear which stand in the way of communication," have won him Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships. His Pyramus & Thisbe is a dial-version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, lovers, who can communicate only through a hole in a wall. In the painted epoxy sculpture, Thisbe appears only as an ear modeled inside the back door of the pay phone...
...Angeles, Addressograph-Multigraph's Bruning Division showed off two electrostatic models that it claims can produce copies at half the cost and twice the speed of Xerox machines but that require special paper. American Photocopy demonstrated its new "Dial-A-Copy," which has a telephone-like dial on which the user can order from one to ten copies, and SCM (Smith Corona-Marchant) showed its similar, dial-operated Model 44. 3M displayed six specialized machines that produce by means of heat and light sensitivity; one turns out single copies on heat-sensitive paper for about 310, and another produces...
LITTLE BIG MAN by Thomas Berger. 440 pages. Dial...