Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first coed who would pick it up in the nude, a shapely lass wearing only her makeup darted into the bar and with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland, Me. At Princeton University, Charles Bell, a candidate for vice president of the class of'76, demonstrated his political flexibility by taking up streaking. His campaign slogan: VOTE THE STREAKER- IF ELECTED, HE WILL RUN. At the University of Georgia and the University of Illinois, students carried streaking to new heights by jumping from planes...
...Annie Bell Alford, 56, a part-time cleaner and maid...
Both companies lease private long-distance phone lines to corporate, institutional and government clients. These "tie lines," carrying voice and data, are the most profitable of Bell's services, especially on the high-traffic routes between major cities. Until January 1972, Bell had a monopoly on tie lines; then MCI inaugurated a microwave relay network, offering the same service at lower prices. For example five AT&T lines between Chicago and St. Louis cost around $2,500 a month; five MCI lines cost between $95 and $255 a month less...
...Bell officials protest that price competition is not only unjust, but also a threat to the entire monopoly system that has put telephones in 94% of American homes. Only by charging tieline customers somewhat more than the service actually costs to provide, they contend, can AT&T hold down rates to users of its standard services. Federal regulators, they argue, should not permit its rates to be undercut by MCI, which has no obligation to maintain unprofitable service in rural communities, as Bell does. MCI executives reply simply that prices should reflect the cost of providing service: costly services should...
What really exasperates Bell executives is that MCI plans to plug its long-distance customers into Bell's local systems. An MCI client in New York will be able to list and use a Chicago telephone number without having an office there. He could call any number in Chicago, and Chicagoans could call him in New York with Bell collecting only for the local service. AT&T refused to provide that service, so MCI petitioned the federal district court in Philadelphia, and won. Had MCI lost, AT&T could have nipped the growing competition in the bud: fewer clients...