Word: bell
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...book's panoramic text, which sometimes lapses into newscaster's jargon ("All Russia was in anarchy"), Author Duncan tries to capture more than 800 years, but his pictures tell a more revealing story-ropes of pearls, rather like fetters; Empress Anna's cathedral bell, a 200-ton monument to Old Russia, damaged by fire in 1737 and never hung; the golden crowns gorged with diamonds-all these are works of art. Yet this is art not as communication but as excommunication, a barrier defining the unbridgeable distance between the rulers' unlimited power and the cowed abasement...
...biggest U.S. private enterprise this week set an upbeat pace for industry with the first-quarter earnings report in its current fiscal year. For the three months ending Feb. 29, the Bell System's share of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. earnings rose to a record $292,223,000, or $1.32 per share v. $1.21 per share in the same period last year. In his quarterly letter to A. T. & T.'s 1,700,000 stockholders, company President Frederick R. Kappel said that new telephone installations for the first quarter would probably exceed 750,000, slightly more than...
Ford, 46, a good friend since Nixon's early days in Congress; Charles Percy, 40, Chicago industrialist (president of the Bell & Howell Co.) and chairman of the blue-ribbon Republican Committee on Program and Progress (TIME, May 11, 1959); and Attorney General William...
...perfectly circular orbit that will keep its cameras at an efficient picture-taking distance. Its farthermost point of 468 miles from the earth is only 32 miles higher than the low point. The feat of orbital precision, unequaled by either U.S. or Soviet satellites, was accomplished by a special Bell Telephone Laboratories guidance system in the rocket's second stage...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Concert Hall stars Pianist Jose Iturbi, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Soprano...