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...such as Confidential's account of Joe DiMaggio's famed "wrong-door" raid on Marilyn Monroe. Newspaper and magazine morgues also have been raided by scandalmag agents. To backstop his bedroom exclusives. Harrison retained a squad of private eyes with such electronic sleuths as a fast, small, noiseless camera, wrist-attached microphones that can pick up a sigh at 60 paces...
...which already sells $725 million worth of electronic products annually and leads in color TV, is planning to market a noiseless electronic air conditioner, has a pilot model now in operation. A.T.&T., whose entire telephone network is one gigantic computer, is working hard on a visual phone system it calls "Picture-phone," is experimenting with pushbutton dialing and voice dialing. Raytheon is already producing electronic range units for near-instant cooking, hopes to get the price to consumers down to $500 (from $1,200) soon. Westinghouse, which already has computer-controlled electronic elevators in operation, will soon market...
Theoretical studies told him that a speck of the proper kind of crystal, held in a magnetic field at a temperature close to absolute zero, should work as an almost noiseless amplifier. Naming the unborn device the Versitron, Dr. Strandberg predicted extraordinary powers for it. In electronic communication, the power of the transmitter might be cut to one-thousandth. The telescopes of radio astronomy might become so sensitive that astronomers would have to spend years digesting the records of a short observing period. No Versitron has been built, but Bell Telephone Laboratories, guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories...
...thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes." -Walt Whitman...
...millions of U.S. homes, the bright-eyed youngster with a space helmet in the closet and a space comic under his pillow was being listened to with new interest. Man seemed to be much closer to Whitman's eerie concept of other globes springing out noiseless from...