Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, a sort of "respectable Castro" to many Latinos. "In Latin America," said a senior French official in Paris, "it may be either Castroism or Gaullism." Not quite. Nevertheless, in Mexico De Gaulle will make his major speech from the balcony of the Presidential Palace in Zocalo plaza - a signal honor never before accorded a visiting dignitary -and he is already reported to be practicing Spanish phrases...
Tanner calls the heart of his device a comparator. It works with a sensitive receiver that pulls in a signal from a TV home receiver and compares it with all signals being broadcast by TV stations. The device fits into a panel truck that is driven around city streets, sweeping up signals from all TV sets in the area and calculating what channels they are tuned to. Tanner makes the ambitious claim that it can read a whole apartment building as easily as a private house. The truck moves along at 15 m.p.h. while the machine counts 106 sets...
...such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire into a bush. The repeater picks up the weak signal from a bug in the victim's house and rebroadcasts it in sufficient volume to be heard beyond the restricted area...
They are pure and classic idols. All they have to do is lift their arms or shake their waterweed hair to provoke screams that would blot out an allclear signal. This is the oddest thing in the Beatles' strange celebrity. They are adulated singers whose swarming fans scream so steadily through each song that they cannot possibly hear what is being sung. Every so often the Beatles step forward and shout, "Oh, shut up," but that only quintuples the screams. Perhaps this is because the audience already has heard on records what it is missing in mere reality...
...century or more ago. But the tire screech of a hard-braked auto mobile is probably no more disturbing than the howl of a timber wolf rallying the pack. And no American today need lie awake worrying whether the soft fluting of a small owl is really the signal that a band of Indians is closing in for a scalping spree...