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...task force of investigators began probing for the cause of the crash. Over and over again they played back a tape-recording of the last radio transmission to Oakland Control. The only clue, they felt, lay in the garbled call from the plane. Finally, with special playback equipment, the garble began to make sense. It was the voice of the pilot or copilot. He had shouted, "I've been shot! I've been shot! Oh God! Help!" There was nothing else...
...lively spool or two in a novel called The Ginger Man, a picaresque tale of low life and high philosophy in Dublin's slums. He has now reverted to tape in a second novel, this one called A Singular Man, whose hero, equipped with the Joyce instant-playback brain, goes all over the Blooming place in Manhattan...
...volt Autostereo models, priced from $129 up, made and distributed in 14 states by former Used-Car Tycoon Earl "Mad Man" Muntz of Los Angeles. Designed only for playback with special tape cartridges, they take any prerecorded material from the Muntz Music Library. Senator Barry Goldwater bought one from his son Mike, who holds the Phoenix franchise. Comedian Jerry Lewis has cartridge copies made of scripts, learns his lines by Autostereo on the way to work. Sales have reached epidemic proportions, claims a Muntz spokesman. "We started selling to Continentals. Then we went to Cadillacs, Buicks, Fords and Chevrolets...
...rigidity of regular coursework, claiming that it contrasted too strongly with the total freedom of Interim. "In Interim, you have three weeks to work on your own. But before and afterward in class, the exact opposite is true: the lectures are simpleminded and the exams and papers are strictly playback. You aren't asked or expected to think for yourself...
...rape−"tomorrow's nothings," as one boy put it. Slack lured them with cash: 50? to $2 an hour for being "research consultants" in a study of "how guys foul up." "Sick, Man, Sick." The chance to unburden themselves on tape−and then listen to the playback−worked as well as analysis. Usually, says Slack, the boys passed through five stages: apathy, anger, despair, insight, transformation...