Word: bell
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Foreign aid administrators are ephemeral as the light of fireflies in the dark. There have been ten of them in nine years, and it is hard not to wonder if David Bell, the newest director of the Agency for International Development (A.I.D.), wishes fondly for the safety of his old office back at Littauer. Quietly, for self-assertion is a dangerous quality in his position, Mr. Bell has in the last three weeks seen his program transferred to the hands of pure caprice. Both he and the President have ceased to exercise any control over the appropriation of foreign...
...They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying a telephone to the surface. Four hours later another sub found the buoy, talked by phone with those trapped below. Twenty-four hours after the Squalus sank, a Navy diver reached her deck and directed a 10-ton diving bell in four dramatic descents that saved...
...Bell System's 66 million phones and extensions.* 4,000,000 numbers are unlisted. Of New York City's 2,275,000 private phones. 280,000 are unlisted, and the number grows by 3,000 per month. Of Denver's 487,318 phones, 20,710 are unlisted (up 5,453 from the previous year); 14% of Chicago's private phones are unlisted, as are some 19% of Los Angeles...
...Bell accounts for nearly all the phones in nearly all the nation's urban areas; there are an additional 13,000,000 phones, divided among 2,845 companies serving mostly rural areas, where unlisted numbers are rare...
While Constancy's mother (Miranda Samples) attempts to connect her love-sick daughter with Dr. Daly, one love approaches fulfillment: Alexis (H. Thomas Bell), son of Sir Marmaduke, will soon wed Alien (Carolyn W. Kimball). But Alexis, cursed with ideas, thinks indiscriminate and widespread marriage will bring all earthly joys and accordingly engages a respectable family sorcerer (Peter Skolnik) to enamour the villagers of each other. The results are lively Gilbert and Sullivan...