Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produces the sounds of many other instruments: sometimes it is a percussion instrument rapping out the beat while the drums fly elsewhere as they often do, sometimes Beck sounds like John Handy blowing high-pitched squeals out of his sax, sometimes Beck's guitar sounds like a piano, a bell, and once, unforgettably, a wailing harp (on 'Shapes of things...
...Previous visitors probably remember the reproduction of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel shown at Easter time, or the animated diorama of the First Continental Congress. This week we are opening "A Science Tune-In: New Horizons in Light and Sound," created with the assistance of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
Slamming Ramos almost nonstop with both fists, Joe decked the Mexican twice, closed his right eye, and raised egg-size lumps on his forehead. Barely saved by the bell at the end of the second round, Ramos wearily waved his arm in a gesture of surrender, and the referee stopped the fight. For undefeated Joe Frazier, it was Victory No. 21 and Knockout...
Last year, after taking 10,000 pages of testimony, the FCC determined that a fair return on Bell's interstate capital investment would be 7% to 7.5% v. the 7.5% to 8.5% that Bell had asked for. The FCC thereupon ordered interstate phone rates cut by $120 million, or about 3%. After a vigorous appeal, Bell got the FCC to temporarily suspend $20 million of the cut. Two weeks ago, A.T. & T. petitioned to have the $20 million thrown out altogether to compensate for the recent wage settlement and other rising costs...
...still to tackle a host of other issues, most importantly A.T. & T.'s relations with Western Electric, the nation's eleventh biggest manufacturing company. Though Bell avoided divestiture of Western Electric on antitrust grounds through a 1956 consent decree with the Justice Department, other questions are being raised about the subsidiary, which manufactures almost all Bell System equipment. Critics charge that Bell deliberately pays inflated Western prices in order to increase the Bell System rate base by raising the value of its plant. A.T. & T. denies this, pointing to Western's slim (4.1% last year) margin...