Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loeb's scheme, computers would monitor the odds for all U.S. sporting events, detect suspicious swings of big money and thus discourage fixes. Customers could dial a bet and have the transaction entered on their phone bills. The Government would not pay bribes, which cost the Mob about $2 billion a year. It could make winnings tax-free and still get by with a 10% to 20% rake-offless than half the Mob's reported take. In short, the Government could offer better odds. As Loeb figures it, the Government might net $15 billion a year...
...politicians. We can't cast one vote in committee, an opposite vote on the floor; can't say one thing in the North, an opposite thing in the South. We hold no tenure, four years or otherwise, and can be voted out with a twist of the dial...
...organization with Banker David Rockefeller as its chairman and Governor Nelson Rockefeller on the board of trustees, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is bankrolling an incongruous enterprise. As part of the museum's current exhibit on "Information," a poet named John Giorno contributed a sort of Dial-a-Radical service. By telephoning (212) 956-7032, the public can hear one of more than 600 predominantly revolutionary, tape-recorded messages...
...life. Its copper coaxial cables, though larger than telephone cord, have 1,000 times the communications capacity. Washington willing, the U.S. could be transformed into what some call "the wired nation." Within ten years, CATV's two-way conduits could provide set-side shopping and banking, dial-a-movie service, a burglar and fire watch, and facsimile print-outs of newspapers or even library books...
...normal-size booths, the phone at first glance looks as if it has already been vandalized. There is no receiver-only a steel wall with a grille that hides-and protects-a recessed microphone. A loudspeaker is in the ceiling. Press a button, put in a dime, dial your number, and turn down the volume control if you don't want all the passers-by to hear the amplified voice of the speaker at the other end of the line. Gamblers and bookies hate the new phone, lovers are embarrassed by it and just about everyone accustomed...