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Diverted Thief. The answering machines are only mildly Buck Rogerish compared with Marcom Inc.'s call diverter. A thumb wheel is set with the number where the owner will be, and incoming calls are transferred there. Lawyer Melvin Belli has one, switches early-morning calls to the hamburger stand where he breakfasts. And since the call is transferred without the caller's being any the wiser, the device should be a boon to wayward husbands or junior executives who have slipped out for a quick pick...
...Marcom is busy finding more uses for its invention. Last May, a San Jose, Calif., burglar learned about one of them. When he slipped open the window of a house whose owner was away on vacation, he unknowingly tripped a trigger that set the diverter to silently dialing the police. When the cops answered the phone, the diverter sounded a coded buzz. By checking their key, the police could identify the source of the call, soon had a prowl...
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