Word: hookups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After long testing of remote-control electrocardiography under routine conditions, including transmission of the signals by telephone line and computer evaluation, the U.S. Public Health Service is ready to extend its hookup from Washington to the emergency room of Connecticut's Hartford Hospital. After receiving the ECG signals, the computer will shoot a diagnosis back to Hartford within 15 seconds, whereas it might take hours to find an expert cardiologist to give a reading...
...will have witnessed one or more of the 32 games before the final match in London late this week. Fans who could not come to Britain have kept abreast with play-by-play accounts from 700 radio and TV broadcasters and 1,600 reporters. Thanks to a worldwide satellite hookup, the final game will probably be witnessed on television by no fewer than 400 million...
...Military Intervention. Conant's frequent public speeches helped polarize the issue. On a speaking tour of the South in October he called for immediate and complete American armament; in November he said that no limit should be put on our aid to the Allies; by May, on a national hookup, he urged immediate entry into...
...Alan sits at home and attends class via a two-way telephone hookup, paid for by the school board. Teachers and students must speak loudly so that the apparatus, which is moved from room to room, can pick up the voices. A teacher writing on a blackboard must be sure to pronounce what she writes, and to explain diagrams. Alan, unable to get recognition by raising his hand, just interrupts by phone to recite. It's all rather distracting, but at least Alan will be able to take his final exams, graduate, and go on to use his scholarship...
...hill in Brookline. Begining the morning after the assault, he spoke daily with officials of the hospital in Cuenca where the victims were being treated, and with the American Embassy in Quito. Every morning he connected the home phones of the Nortons and Paynters into his 4000-mile radio hookup, and they were able to follow the progress of the victims as if they were in the neighborhood hospital...