Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women's bathing suits will be sheer; cocktail dresses will be bell-shaped. Men's jackets will be checked; haberdashers will also offer open-toed beach sandals...
...close the gap. This year, said A. T. & T. President Cleo F. Craig, the world's biggest utility will spend a staggering $2.1 billion merely to keep from falling farther behind. With 47 million phones already in service, orders for another 3,000,000 are expected and every Bell subsidiary is snowed under by an 11% increase in long-distance calls...
Self-Adjusting Camera. A movie camera that automatically adjusts its lens for variations in the amount of light was announced by Bell & Howell Co. A photoelectric cell like a standard light meter controls two small electric motors (powered by tiny batteries) that adjust the lens opening to prevailing light conditions. Price...
...much for the known facts. What idea drives these manic bell-ringers? This is a more difficult question. Their aim in organizing is, according to their constitution, "to improve the quality of performance." This, of course, would be silly, as anyone with ears knows. The performance on the Lowell House bells is, currently, of good quality. This pale excuse conceals their real aim--noise: more...
Although this is not necessarily a Bad Thing, it must be remembered that noise is not necessarily a Good Thing. Already, Cambridge ears are be-labored by noise from running water in the morning, subways at night, and Lambrettas in between. Especially obnoxious is the Lamont bell-buzzer. Slick operating, inevitable, and indigenous to the "Lamont atmosphere," it is as well hated as anything at Harvard. Of similar pernicious tendencies, the constitutionalizing Lowell House Bell-Ringers must beware...