Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voices of Prague Radio, got past Russian guards by claiming that she was a charwoman. Others slipped out of the studios with vital transmitting equipment, which was soon wired up to put "Radio Free Czechoslovakia" on the air from a downtown Prague apartment. Because single transmitters are easy to track, engineers bounced their signal to transmitters at new locations every quarter hour, some of them supplied by the Czechoslovakian army. The underground radio network was such a total success that President Svoboda had to broadcast official statements through it last week; the Russian-occupied regular studios remained deserted and unused...
Dayton's has fully computerized its B. Dalton operation to keep track of fastand slow-moving titles, meanwhile taking pains to make the chain seem like a group of friendly neighborhood booksellers. Most B. Dalton ads use the first person to proclaim "I am having a sale," or "I see a growing interest in the occult." Mixing mechanization with the personal touch is a Dayton's hallmark that has paid off for the company as a whole. Last year Dayton's had sales of $265,507,000 and profits of $9,587,000, a gain of some...
After chasing each other around the track for years, Detroit's automakers and their foreign competition now appear to be coming full circle. The U.S. is about to undergo another compact-car race with a brand new generation of minimodels...
Helicopter Pursuit. Arab delegates protested the raid at the United Nations, and Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, who escaped the Salt attack unscathed, swore that "we shall strike back harder than ever." The Israelis replied in kind. Two days later they used helicopters to track a fleeing band of commandos into Jordan after an attack in Israel's Negev desert, landed troops from choppers fore and aft of the guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously...
...shame that Karen will not be in Mexico City to keep her records afloat. Someone else is likely to sink them. In no other sport do records fall so fast. Last year no fewer than 37 world marks were broken, while only 16 track records were improved. In ten years, two full seconds have been lopped off the 100-meter freestyle record. In track the comparable 400-meter dash mark has dropped only...