Word: attacker
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Guilty Operator. Other promising targets for attack include post offices that use computerized mail sorters and telephone operators who insist that customers place their own long-distance calls with a computerized dialing code. Matusow advises pasting stamps on sideways so that the scanner cannot read the magnetized strips that differentiate between values of stamps. In persuading telephone operators to handle calls personally, he suggests saying: "I'm sorry, operator, but I'm blind and do need your assistance." That ploy "is bound to make her feel extremely guilty, and will make it easier for the next caller...
...badinage of the seduction scenes and the script as a whole will sound uncommonly witty, tart and adult to American audiences, particularly now that the networks are under attack for "excessive permissiveness" from John Pastore, chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. No canned laughter is added to the sound track. There is one deferential addition for the American viewers, though: a brief epilogue and tidy ending, showing the Caine and Calder-Marshall courtship heading for consummation, probably in wedlock. Another hopeful outcome is that Play wright Owen is now drafting a sequel: Female of the Species, starring Elizabeth Taylor...
...monster under attack is pay-TV, the proposed complement to existing TV service that has been awaiting a final go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission in Washington since the early 1950s. Pay-television companies would provide subscribers with a special TV-set attachment that decodes scrambled signals to bring such features as Broadway shows, operas and first-run movies. The campaign to slay the monster is led by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO to the trade) and supported by some projectionists' union locals. Legitimate theaters are not a part of the national association or its fight...
Even if pay-TV loses the battle, NATO will not have won the war. Already, many marquees have replaced the SAVE FREE TV slogan with FIGHT PAY-TV IN ANY FORM. That is an oblique attack on cable TV (CATV), a different service designed to bring extra channels and a clearer picture to isolated and poor-reception areas for a monthly fee. If CATV operators are allowed to add programs of their own, including new movies, the resulting diversity could be another serious threat to theater owners, who are already so beleaguered that they cannot afford to laugh...
...close down the festival before it opened. "The lewd and loose will swing and sway," the Dallas Morning News editorialized. Everywhere the populace and the police braced for disaster. But the young again confounded their critics. True, drugs were easily available. There were one death (of a heart attack), one birth and three marriages. But no violence. Fewer than 150 youngsters were arrested-most of them on charges of indecent exposure or peddling dope. Around Dallas, this pacific result enraged angry citizens, who wanted the cops to bust the kids. Lewisville Chief of Police Ralph Adams, who had handled...