Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the Point. In San Francisco, the local CBS station was flooded with 7,000 more phone calls than it could handle. They came from listeners who wanted to join a discussion program on civil rights questions. In Columbus, sheriff's deputies practiced mob control by hurling featherweight plastic "bricks" at one another. In Chicago, housewives suddenly cut out their weekday visits to Lincoln Park Zoo and instead began going in groups to Lake Michigan's beaches because they feared attacks by marauding Negroes...
...fire alarms rang through the area. Mounted police heaved back against the mobs with their horses. Again and again came the cries of "Police brutality!" "Kill 'em!" "Murderers!" A white newsman, telephoning from a bar, heard a Negro yell: "We gotta kill all the whiteys!" He dropped his phone and scooted out. A bartender shook his head sadly: "Where are their parents? If the parents would take charge of them, they couldn't get mixed up in this...
...shape of a small tape recorder. After a routine check on the patient's health, the nurse pulls four wires out of the Honeywell Cardioview box, and tapes the attached electrodes to the patient's arms and legs. Next, she picks up the patient's phone and dials a number. When she hears an answering signal, she gives the department's code number for this patient. Without another word, she shoves the telephone mouthpiece into the receptacle of a Bell Dataphone attached to the cardiograph. Then she throws a switch...
...receiver at G.W. shuts itself off when the nurse hangs up the phone, but then more significant electrical wizardry takes over. The recorded tape is fed into a desk-size computer developed for the PHS's Heart Disease Control Program. The computer "listens" to as much of the ten-second recording from each lead as it needs to get the pattern, and shows the patient's heart currents on an oscilloscope screen. It also reduces them to electrical impulses on a numbered scale that it stores in its memory...
...like any employee. He has breathed new life and spirit into Avis, increased its vehicle fleet from 16,600 to 36,000. He has even let himself be grist for Doyle Dane's productive mill. A recent ad revealed that he has no secretary and answers his own phone, suggested that anyone with a complaint call his number direct (area code 516, CH 8-9150). Townsend has since heard from about 400 people, last week made a San Francisco reservation for one caller and authorized another to get on-the-spot credit without an Avis card or cash deposit...