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...whether Avord had the equipment for repairs, the plane had to go to Germany, but no one there knew of our impending arrival, much less of our mission or predicament. Fortunately, we established contact from the airplane with General Vernon Walters, our defense attache in Paris, in a radio hookup through Washington. Walters went to the Elysee Palace, where President Pompidou himself authorized his jet to meet my plane in Frankfurt...
...Source, the owner of a home computer pays a $100 hookup fee, plus a service charge when his terminal is in use: $2.75 per off-peak hour (6 p.m. to 7 a.m.) or $15 per business hour. Once connected, the consumer can call up programs by placing a toll-free call to a computer in Silver Spring, Md., and asking The Source questions-in English. Available since June 5, The Source's home and business services are just a phone call and a terminal screen away for 500 new subscribers...
...plastic foam and an outer layer of aluminum) have been strung past just about half of all the TV homes in the U.S. Cable operators could multiply their audience overnight at minimum expense if someone in each of those homes would pick up the phone and order a hookup. Though most viewers ordering cable do so to see late movies or sports events, or simply to get clearer pictures, programmers are putting together ever more innovative packages of shows that cannot be seen on regular...
Thievery aggravates another nagging problem: service. When something goes wrong with a cable-attached set, there may well be a problem determining whether the trouble is in the set, the cable hookup or the decoder box. If the latter two, the cable operator must provide service; some operators are quick in responding to calls, others are not. Thieves tapping ineptly into a cable system can ruin cable reception for everyone on a block...
Everything worked out fine. Although Gene missed his hookup with Schlosser, he did manage to pass the documents fancily to his plummeting wife. Three minutes later the couple made a perfect landing. "Almost everything in our marriage was done around skydiving, so the divorce in the air seemed the natural thing to do," Lynda explained. Watching it all from the ground was Gene's bride to be, Lorraine Ahern. She jumps out of airplanes...