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other's name, a signal to an AT&T technician to switch the long-distance transmission lines from New York to
Washington or vice versa. The anchors gained great celebrity, and surveys showed them better known than John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, or the Beatles. In 1961,
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