Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom the bell tolls in and around Hickory Corners, Mich. There is no toll at all for 40 stubborn households. When telephone rates jumped a hefty 54% almost a year ago, subscribers protested by having their phones disconnected. A court upheld the new rates, and telephone company officials have refused to compromise...
CHRISTMAS 1976. Divorced! My cards, bearing a drawing of a worried monk swinging on a bell rope to escape a mouse, will soon go out. They are a vehicle to announce to everyone who already knows it that I am single again. They are print-personalized, but anyone who is in any way important to me will get the card with the type crossed out and holiday homilies scribbled in. So why print-personalize the card at all? Don't ask such embarrassing questions...
...most absorbed collaboration was with Billy Klüver, a Swedish laser-research scientist from Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1966 they started a nonprofit foundation named E.A.T., or Experiments in Art and Technology. Its announced purpose was "to catalyze the inevitable active involvement of industry, technology and the arts." E.A.T. grew out of "Nine Evenings," a series of multimedia happenings held in New York in 1966. Its biggest project...
...great many of these letters consist of a kind of British banterchatter. The author of the shimmeringly exquisite Waves, writing to her artist-sister Vanessa Bell, natters on endlessly about the servant problem, her dog Shot, the difficulties of choosing chair covers, the advisability of drinking plenty of milk, and the jolly monotony of life in the Sussex country ("Leonard caught two moles this morning"). Deeper feelings blurt through only in a sentence here and there ("Nothing except painting and writing is really interesting nothing can be quite so important as child bearing"). Such revelations are surrounded like desert islands...
Summa appears to be doing well in the absence of the boss. Traffic on Hughes Airwest's Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas route is up 11% from last year. Hughes engineers are building a prototype attack helicopter in competition with Bell for a $1 billion Pentagon contract. KLAS-TV in Las Vegas is bristling with $1 million in new equipment. In October, the new $4 million Hughes Aviation Terminal opened formally in Las Vegas. Among its features: banks of slot machines, a U.S. customs station, and a liquor store that sells Coors by the case...