Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noise that comes back from the bottom is changed in frequency by the movement of the ship. This easily detected frequency shift is the celebrated Doppler effect, and a computer translates the change into speed-and-direction instructions for the automatic marking pen. A single dial adjusts the navigator to the scale of any standard marine chart. And last week's sea trial found the new Doppler sonar accurate within a startling...
...York Telephone Co. is previewing a new "TouchTone" phone, which replaces the familiar dial with a bank of ten buttons. A seven-digit number (providing one can remember it) may be punched out in an estimated two to five seconds, compared with an average ten seconds for dialing...
...Yourself. The terrors of Boston's Park League (56 teams in seven divisions), the Townies are an odd breed-amateurs who knock one another around for the pure delight of it. At a time when the most voracious fan can get his kicks by twisting a TV dial, do-it-yourself football seems absurdly out of date. But every Sunday, in dozens of U.S. cities, the sandlots are full of amateurs with a yen to work off frustrations, sweat out hangovers or relive their younger days of gridiron glory. They are plumbers, policemen, office workers, salesmen, doctors, teachers...
Some call it "Dial-a-Date." In Dallas, they call it "The Grapevine." "It just might be the greatest social game since kissing. It sure leads to that, anyway," says one graduate aficionado...
...season gets under way, the networks are putting on display their new entries in the armchair dial-flicker's game of Russian roulette...