Word: responders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plugged into Sonuswitch. All one has to do to turn it on or off is to clap his hands twice, quickly and sharply. The claps trigger the switch-and presto! Or a dog whistle, provided with the $40 switch, can be blown twice. For Sonuswitch is trained to respond only to 14-kilocycle signals that occur twice in the space of half a second. A constant signal will not do it, and the company, which is primarily an acoustical research and development firm, claims that few stray sounds will accidentally trigger...
...Four Seasons will-if played on an absolutely first-rate, perfectly tuned hi-fi system. So will the telephone, if it is set on "loud" and the switch is within three feet. Before the year is out, the company plans to offer a second model that will respond only to the phone and only after 15 full phone rings. That will enable the housewife to call and start the air conditioner or the electric heater or the oven...
Dietz, who challenged the Coop's nominees for its Board of Directors last year with a slate of his own, said Monday he has no plans to speak at the meeting. But he added that he might respond to questions about the Coop's Palmer Street annex, which he has been battling for 19 months...
...Swiss could not care less, so long as the smugglers register their purchases for export. The contrabbandieri respond gratefully by registering-most of the time. As a result, official Swiss statistics show that cigarette exports to Italy (usually of U.S. brands made under license in Switzerland) flared from 50 million packs in 1960 to 210 million packs last year, while Italian statistics show that only 3,000,000 packs of cigarettes were imported legally in 1964. Italian border police nabbed another 70 million packs of smokes being toted over the border on everything from helicopters and freight cars to trained...
...Well? Well? Where does the well appear in the case?" screamed the professor, as the next student was summoned to respond. A bit overdone, perhaps. But the class learned fast that sloppiness is not tolerated...