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Aside from the money-if anything can be aside from the money-it is hard to see why anyone would want to work on any of the three shows. Survivors of those predawn wake-up calls and truncated social lives report strange goings-on in their heads and stomachs. "People aren't supposed to live those kinds of hours," says Schieffer, who had to rise between 2 and 3 a.m. for 20 months. "I woke up one afternoon with a buzz in my head and realized that I had been having it for two years. Then I knew...
...unit is not only AM/FM but is equipped with a liquid crystal diode (LCD) digital clock. A separate lithium battery with a service life of one year is used for the clock and three AA pen-light batteries for the radio. The clock is equipped with a beep wake-up alarm that will run for about four minutes after the selected alarm time has been reached and it will then turn off automatically. Unlike analog clocks, the digital in the radio has an AM and PM indicator. The clock has an hour switch, minute and second display switches...
Economies like these easily outweigh temporary technical glitches. Wall Street communications analysts, like Winston Himsworth of Salomon Brothers, see a huge market for the new phones. Himsworth envisions the day when PBX systems will transmit programmed information to put through a wake-up call to an employee in the morning, electronically turn on the lights and air conditioner a few minutes before he arrives at work, and lock the office door when he leaves at day's end. Electronic word-processing machines may be hooked onto the phone system, Himsworth figures, allowing an employee to punch out a letter...
...Hello? Mr. Bernal? This is your wake-up call. It's just about February 3rd. It's time to wake your team up and go to Princeton...
After a brief discussion, the conspirators agreed that just one call would not be enough. It would be too easy for the tiger mentors to roll over and go back to sleep. They decided instead to leave both a 4 a.m. and a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call for the Princetonians, thereby insuring that they would be wide awake and ready for the day's important events...