Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story, which struck me as superficial, omitted mention of the fact that the telephones were working. No doubt you are aware that telephones are powered by electricity-and Mother Bell was prepared. Similar efforts were made successfully by the radio stations. Other public utilities were found sadly wanting, including the bus system and the fraternity of New York taxi drivers, who were either unwilling to take fares or overcharged them; they deserve public contempt...
...anniversary of the birth of the great Russian village poet, Sergei Esenin. In his 52-line Letter to Esenin, Evtushenko raged oratorically on about how the "red-cheeked Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax." The lines rang a bell for Sergei Pavlov, the red-cheeked secretary of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). He stormed out of the meeting and returned with four militiamen to arrest the bard, but backed off when the crowd of young poetry lovers staged a stormy protest of their own. Dear Esenin, Russia has changed...
...imposing figure in white tie and tails, he waited as the 27-piece Esterhazy Orchestra played the first lilting strains of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Then, clasping his hands, Alfred Deller began to sing. The contrast was startling: out of this burly frame poured the extraordinarily high, bell-clear voice of that rarest of all male singers, the countertenor...
Senate seat in Illinois? The parallel appeals strongly to many Midwestern Republican leaders. Last week they were striving mightily to impress it on Chuck Percy, the Bell & Howell board chair man who narrowly lost his bid for the governorship in last year's G.O.P. debacle. Next year, they urged, Percy should enter the lists against three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 73, a popular paragon of liberalism and a comfortably protected member in good standing of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's well-greased machine...
Murphy is reported to have said he was unavailable. It is believed that even if McNamara desired the position, Johnson would not let him leave Washington at this time. Bell, a former Harvard economist, has reportedly received a firm offer of the Foundation's vice-presidency in charge of international affairs. Bell also refused to comment on the job-shuffling...