Word: headset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coed slides into a plastic chair in a soft green three-sided cubicle, consults a mimeographed list, flips a switch, sees a red light blink, dials 1-2-2, pulls on earphones. Into the headset flows the voice of her political science professor, then Adlai Stevenson on the meaning of democracy, finally a discussion of freedom by New York University's Sidney Hook-and thus ends Lecture 1, Second Semester, Political Science...
...girls came on the line later with some advice that sounded more official than wifely. Said Pat White to her husband: "Now have a drink of water." White answered: "Roger. Standing by for a drink of water." Pat McDivitt told Jim, "Disconnect your headset communications at the neck ring from now on at the start of your sleep period. No static on that. Did you get the message to disconnect your headset?" McDivitt came in loud, clear and obedient: "I sure...
...Eichmann, the Israeli government outdid itself to accommodate the visitors. Censorship was lifted on all trial copy. In and around the courtroom building gleamed $350,000 worth of new transmission facilities, including banks of teletypes staffed by Jerusalem housewives hastily recruited and trained. Each guest was equipped with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial's stern security measures were...
...trial charged with arranging the murder of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II. Each day, for months on end, he will be led down a guarded back stairway to take his seat in the bulletproof glass cage that surrounds the defendant's chair, listening through a headset, speaking through a microphone. At Eichmann's left will be the three Israeli judges who will decide his fate. In the amphitheater at his right will be the world's press, TV and radio correspondents. The latter clearly were the more important audience, for Eichmann's guilt...