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This numerologicl nightmare is only a foretaste of what the future holds for dialers when the Bell Telephone System's ANC (All-Number-Calling) plan goes into effect all over the U.S. Already 11 million of the 76 million telephones in the U.S. are on ANC. The Bell System and 3,000 independent companies expect to convert all telephones in five years a projected 95 million...
Lost Lust. In the Orwellian world of ANC there will be no telephone exchanges to take pride of comfort in. Philadelphia's old-guard PEnnypacker and stalwart FIdelity will be gone; San Francisco will lose its lusty KLondike and sunny VAlencia; Mobile's TUlip will wither alongside Cincinnati's BRamble and Santa Fe's YUcca. Fenton, MO., will be torn from it's cozy FIreside, while Chester, Pa., and its saucy GYpsy will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such...
...speech on behalf of his foreign and defense programs, the Scripps-Howard editorial conceded for the first time that Eisenhower's reasoning was "difficult to argue against," adding lamely: "All the more reason why major efforts should be made to rid the foreign aid programs of waste, inefficiency anc incompetence...
...Evangelical Lutheran Church (57,000 members). The resulting new denomination, to be called the American Lutheran Church, will probably be organized in 1960, and its nearly 2,000,000 membership will make it the third largest branch of Lutheranism in the U.S.-after the United Lutheran Church in America anc the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod both slightly over 2,000,000 each...
...coming to the sacraments especially Saturday afternoon confession attired in this most unbecoming manner . . . Let those more competent to judge say whether or not there is ever a time when young ladies should wear trousers-the fact is that many are wearing them. Whatever they may lack in dignity anc comeliness, they are modest. It is the style, however, and we cannot bring ourselves to condemn it, although it is often comic, unladylike, and even sad . . . let fashion reign where she can, but let reverence be the test in church...