Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep in a dial-studded cabinet on the Navy's test ship Compass Island lies a hollow sphere of beryllium no bigger than a baseball. It has no visible means of support, yet it spins at 30,000 r.p.m. Awed naval technicians call it a "star in a bottle," and they count on that man-made star to tell nuclear submarines exactly where they are, even after months of cruising in black ocean deeps...
SALT (3 18 pp.)-Herbert Gold-Dial...
...Dial 219-61. The Grand Duchy today is a sort of constitutional Camelot. It boasts 130 castles (but no university), pristine forests where wild boar are still hunted, crystalline rivers that teem with crayfish, trout and, of course, water nymphs. The Luxembourgeois, who are walking advertisements for their cuisine (famed specialties: thrush pie and partridge canape), brag that it is "French in quality, German in quantity." In other respects as well, they claim to have Europe's highest living standards. There is neither unemployment nor slums; illiteracy was banished in 1847, and the duchy's booming steel industry...
Politically, Luxembourg is a family-style democracy in which street cleaners greet the Prime Minister by his first name. If a citizen gets mad at the government, he has only to dial 219-61 to hear a telephone operator reply, "The Government," and direct him promptly to the appropriate official. For economy's sake, virtually every member of the Cabinet runs at least two ministries. Premier Pierre Werner, 49, who is also Minister of Finance, is a genial, tireless Christian Socialist who bustles around the country in an ancient official Buick as concernedly as if the Grand Duchy...
...broadcast, many TV hams spend as much as $3,000 incorporating such zazzy features as wide-angle lenses. All of them are also ham radio operators by necessity, to supply the audio. And their shacks-the hams' word for any space containing their equipment -are loaded with dial-studded cabinets, control panels, cameras and receiving sets. Ham TV is assigned a limited range in the ultra-high frequencies, but ordinary TV sets can be modified to receive the ham signals...