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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been downright neighborly. Almost everybody recognizes by voice the 19 operators who handle Avalon's manual switchboard, which is the last such one in the Bell system. Not for long. Because of increasing hordes of summer tourists and hard-to-replace parts, Santa Catalina will join the computer age this week when its switchboard is replaced by a direct-dial system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Modernizing Ma Bell | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...conference examines the age-old goal of disarmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Coping with the Global Minefield | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...total strength of 8,000 men. It is an elite strike force whose members have been trained for counterterror and commando-type operations. The Second Parachute Regiment, for example, which recaptured Kolwezi, is expert in night combat, alpine warfare, urban cleanup operations, amphibious landings, demolition and sabotage. The average age of recruits: 22. Virtually all the legion's officers are French. Technically, French nationals are forbidden to enlist in the legion, but many do, pretending to be Belgians, Swiss or Canadians. Although the new legion tries hard to exclude professional thugs and officially refuses to accept men accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Foreign Legion Fights Again | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...age 200, Andover reaches out "to youth from every quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shedding That Preppy Image | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Swarthmore College Margaret Kuhn, L.H.D., Gray Panthers leader. For making it possible in a still young nation to celebrate old age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 2 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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