Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three, Gregory T. Quenell '85, Robert Weinstock, an extension school student, and William T., Vetterling '71, Associate Professor of Physics, are members of the Harvard Wireless Club, and since last summer have been pursuing "Traffic Handling," one of several stations providing informal communications to and from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy cadets training aboard the State of Maine...
...interview relayed in Morse code yesterday by Quenell, President of the Wireless Club, Brain Churchill, supply officer of the ship, said most of the cadets "are away from their family and girl or boyfriends for the first time, and when the heartache of homesickness gets to the point where it hurts, the message network has been very powerful medicine for all aboard...
...like Darth Vader's helmet, but around the black leather reclining seat the sybaritic unit includes such accessories as a miniature Sony color TV, a stereo system with color transposer for both interior and exterior light shows, a "thermos faucet system" to supply a flow of beverages, a wireless telephone and "whisper" exhaust fans. Price: $32,000. If a desire to work should suddenly take hold, the relaxing executive can unsnap the 18-karat-gold clasps of a black crocodile attaché case ($25,000, from Dunhill), fitted with two gold pens, pencil, cardcase and lighter...
...Secret Connection Briefcase also has offensive capability. A business man has four his fingertips a flashlight designed to blind evildoers for up to four hours with an intense beam of light, as well as a wireless telephone with a built-in scrambler. A handy voice-stress analyzer will reveal whether or not the person being called is telling the truth...
...first four decades by the versatile biographer and journalist (Maugham; Rowing Toward Eden) catches Churchill on all fours. Here, the world statesman is still a vote-grabbing politician, and the supreme war strategist a romantic blunderer. The omnipresent cigar, the V sign and the stentorian voice on the wireless are a World War away...