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...whine had come from a tiny radio receiver hooked to his belt. Until he began wearing it, the Star's only general assignment night reporter had to call in to his paper every half hour. Now, when a story breaks, Night City Editor John Kopeck dials a seven-digit number on the phone, hears a recorded voice say: "Thank you. Your Bellboy party will be signaled." In a matter of seconds, Gold's midriff radio, dubbed Bellboy by its manufacturer, Western Electric, sounds off. Unless Gold stops it by pushing a button, it will keep on keening...
...vitality to Iowa since his appointment last spring. Already in progress is $60 million worth of new construction, including a fine arts center designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. Planning for a big state university was surprisingly similar to the needs of Grinnell, Bowen discovered. "I just had to add another digit...
Fast Payoff. "Numbers" is the poor Negroes' reach for the pot of gold, and 100,000 of them slip nickels and dimes to "runners" each day in the hope that their three-digit number will come up for a 600-to-1 payoff. Otherwise known as the policy racket, the numbers game drains Harlem of $50 million a year, but it also provides a living for 15,000 runners and controllers. Negro stores abound with code books advising that if you have dreamed about the police you should bet the number 782; about cats, 578; about adultery...
...slowdown is not always delay in the courts- the months or years it can take a case to come to trial. Too often the problem is delay in the law's enforcement-the interminable minutes it can take to reach the police. In an age of computers and digit dialing, it may be easier to phone "Hiya" to a pal in Addis Ababa than to call "Help" to a cop a few blocks away...
...pulses of electricity, but instead of recording simply the presence or absence of magnetism, the Sandia material responds differently to different amounts of electricity. Two pulses magnetize it twice as strongly as one pulse; three pulses do three times the job. The ceramic is so sensitive that any digit up to nine can be recorded on a single piece...