Word: belled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). John Forsythe hosts a musical salute to spring, Passover and Easter. Guests include Richard Tucker, Gabriella Tucci, Nancy Ames, the Serendipity Singers and the Sholom Secunda Chorale...
Abusive calls have increased so much in recent years-New England Telephone Co. estimates up to 1,500 a month are made in its area-that A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel has called for a crackdown, and individual Bell companies are now declaring statewide "wars on obscene calls." Their most effective weapon is an electronic device known as "called-party holding," which the telephone company hooks up free. It consists of a small signal box that is linked to the nearest central office. By simply pushing the button on the box, the victim signals the central office, which immediately locks...
...device is not foolproof. Calls made from party lines make tracing tough. But already it is paying dividends in terms of arrests. With slight variations, New Jersey Bell Telephone has been using it since last fall, Bell in Pennsylvania since the first of the year. In Rockland, Me., the device pinpointed a 17-year-old boy who had been pestering a family with several teen-age girls. And in Massachusetts it has led to a dozen convictions in the past six months on charges of harassment and use of obscene language, resulting in sentences ranging from a $200 fine...
...Mills, who will reach 20 this month, arrived in Manhattan under the proud chaperonage of her parents-though a photographer did manage to ascertain that the kid has lovely legs. In fact, she is such a family concern that for her latest picture, the Upcoming Gypsy Girl, Mother Mary Bell Mills wrote the script, Father John Mills directed and Daughter Hayley acted as a 17-year-old who falls in love with a gypsy. "This silly thing about age," mused Father John. "One day she looks twelve, the next...
Smash Success. To beat the logistics problem and find out just how effective film can be when teachers can integrate it naturally into their instruction, E.B.F. and Bell & Howell Co. have sent $650,600 worth of films and new, automatic-threading sound projectors to schools in wealthy Shaker Heights, Ohio, a slum area of Washington, D.C., suburban Daly City, Calif., and rural Terrell, Texas. Researchers from Ohio State University are evaluating the three-to four-year experiment under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. Although the researchers' verdicts are months away, teachers and students already consider Project...