"Think how the Bell Labs research engineer must have felt when he heard Cooper calling him from the noisy streets of Manhattan."
Getting a call from a noisy street could have hardly been rare at the time -- there used to be coin-operated phones all over Manhattan, and every other city. (In these days of cell phones, they're a bit harder to find, but still around.)
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 34.3 ms ] threadhttp://goo.gl/rcjUo (Spy Magazine Dec '88 via Google Reader)
The guy is probably over 80 years old today, but is still in pretty good shape.
Getting a call from a noisy street could have hardly been rare at the time -- there used to be coin-operated phones all over Manhattan, and every other city. (In these days of cell phones, they're a bit harder to find, but still around.)