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From the start, the Harvard career of these bells has been marked by tragedy. President A. Lawrence Lowell hired a Soviet to install and then tune the bells, unaware that they could not be tuned. The poor bell-tuner, thrust into Cambridge without knowing a bit of English, started to file notches into the bell rims, much to Lowell's chagrin. (He promptly had the man fired for defacing them...
...occasion, Sutherland recalls that a Massachusetts' governor's son "sent his piano tuner to me with a check written out on an ordinary piece of paper." Although "now you couldn't do that" the Coop cashier says she cashed it anyway and "gave him the money...
VCRS come in nonportable tabletop models or portables. With the portables, the recorder can be detached from the tuner and carried on a shoulder strap. Together, the recorder and a small video camera enable the user to take "movies" at the Little League ball park, the beach or anywhere...
...October, Eastman Kodak introduced still another format: an 8-mm video camcorder whose 30-, 60-or 90-minute videotapes are roughly the same size as a standard audio cassette. The 8-mm format is as light as other camcorders, is easy to use and can be attached to a tuner to record television programs. Kodak is clearly banking on acceptance of its format as a third home-video alternative...
...telecommunications network: two battery-powered toy telephones that a friend and I rigged between our houses." DeMott soon graduated to more complicated gadgets, setting up telegraph keys with a teen-age friend and building electronic devices from six Heath-kits, including his own ham radio rig, stereo and FM tuner. More recently he installed cordless telephones in his New York City apartment and in his country house in the Catskills. "I'm almost as interested in how people communicate as in what is communicated," says DeMott. "My father was a newspaperman, and I remember vividly being in his office...