Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHRB, 95.3 on your FM dial, will broadcast the Harvard-Dartmouth hockey game tonight from Hanover's Davis Rank. Coverage of the contest will begin at 7:25 p.m. Genial Bob Burke will be behind the mikes tonight...
...belt inside the machine in much the same fashion as high school students black out answers to a computerized test. As many as 38 phone numbers can be programmed onto the belt; later, any of these numbers can be changed by erasing the black markings and starting afresh. To dial a number, the user moves a pointer to a name on the selector panel and pushes a button. Inside the machine a computer-like sensing device scans the markings made on the belt and dials the correct number...
Bleak Memories. Shula and his deadly Dolphins are the wildest thing to hit Miami since Nick the Greek and a team of shills took Oilman Harry Sinclair for $900,000 at a memorable craps party. Car bumpers are plastered with "I Am a Dol-Fan" stickers; "Dial-a-Dolphin" programs are stealing the play away from local disk jockeys. Raving fans pack the Orange Bowl (capacity: 80,010) to wave white handkerchiefs at their rugged young superteam. The reason is simple: more than anything Miami loves a winner, and Shula's Dolphins are the biggest winners in pro football...
Hall ordered the printing of brightly colored posters which will be conspicuously placed around the University instructing a caller where to find the nearest telephone to dial the Harvard police...
...election coverage had not begun that way. To listen to the promotion was to believe that one of the Western world's great emotional experiences lay at the twist of a dial. The networks ran as hard as the presidential candidates. One considered itself an analgesic. "For best results," read its ad, "take NBC News." Another took to the hustings. "Vote straight CBS News. Re-elect the most trusted man in America . . . Walter Cronkite." ABC modestly reported that Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner would tell what went on in the polling booth "and what's coming...