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...cheapest beeper to hit the market so far is Tandy Corp.'s $99.95 pocket pager. Smaller than a cigarette package, the pager can be activated merely by dialing a seven-digit number on an ordinary telephone. Like all beepers, it carries a monthly rental fee. Depending on the area, the cost will be about $4 to $8 a month, paid to the common carrier that transmits the signals; some carriers add a surcharge of 20? or so per beep. The pager was introduced in the Dallas-Fort Worth area last month, and should be available nationwide...
While this new wave of consumer beepers is designed for simplicity and durability, more complex and versatile models are on the way. Next week Radiofone Corp., a Metromedia subsidiary, will launch what it calls the world's first pen-shaped pager. It weighs 1.5 oz., costs about $365 and is small enough to be clipped on a shirt pocket. The unit runs on a mercury battery that gives off a warning tone when a new one is needed. In May, Radiofone will introduce a 5-oz., $500 beeper that is practically equivalent to a pocket secretary...
...this year's executive, a coveted symbol of upward mobility is not the pocket pager or even the in-car telephone but a high-visibility confab over coffee and croissants. The business breakfast has arrived. Whether it is an attempt to keep ahead of the competition, catch up with the Japanese or just get away from the office telephone, more and more corporate chieftains are gathering at ordinarily uncivilized hours like 7:30 a.m. to make deals...
...introduction, Anthony Lewis '48, former Crimed and now New York Times op-ed pager, describes this collection of Crimson news stories, essays, editorials, letters, cartoons and whatnot as "...more than a book about The Crimson or about Harvard University over the last hundred. It is I think, a piece of social history...
...Bolster's main interests was the Radcliffe News, a weekly news bulletin--usually a four-pager--featuring reviews of local plays or concerts. "Suddenly, someone thought we should have a daily. And for a while we had the only one of its kind in the country. However, it only lasted about a year. We couldn't get enough advertising to keep a daily going and it really wasn't a literary thing at all," she remembers...