Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reach frequently called numbers by dialing two digits instead of seven. ¶ Route incoming calls to another phone if the first line is busy. ¶ Transfer calls to another number. Thus, when called away to a friend's house while expecting an important message, the telephone user need only dial a code number to have the call routed to him. ¶Convert extension phones to household intercom units by dialing two digits...
...arrived by helicopter at the Barlow Firehouse near his Gettysburg farm so early that he had to wait five minutes for the polls to open at 7 a.m. When asked the inevitable question, Eisenhower pointed to his wristwatch, which bore pictures of his grandchildren at four points around the dial: "That's who I voted...
Fast Talker. A month ago, Digitronics brought out a new machine, the Dial-o-verter, for which it has high hopes. It can take information from punched cards or tape at various places around the U.S. and transmit it by telephone, at the rate of 1,500 words per minute, to a central computer. The machine automatically checks itself for errors, can be started by telephone from the central office with no local operator on hand. Digitronics says that the machine is now being tested by one Government agency to relay statistics from branch offices to a central computer...
THEREFORE BE BOLD, by Herbert Gold (256 pp.; Dial; $3.95), is a fond, amused, amusing look backward at adolescence by an author whose other works include a hip novel, The Man Who Was Not With It, and a collection of psychologizing short stories about young separateds, Love and Like. As in his other books, Author Gold, 36, shows considerable skill, inconsiderable passion (or heart, as the song writers have it), and a tendency to roll his phrases around in his mouth now and then in the manner of a winetaster...
...Dial-an-appliance" household equipment. Developed by Westinghouse, it enables a housewife who is downtown shopping to start dinner before she starts home: she simply telephones her home, then by dialing additional digits turns on the oven, sets it to cooking the roast. Vacationers heading home after a two-week absence can telephone their air conditioners en route, find the house cool when they arrive...