Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...erroneous billing by the Puerto Rico Telephone Company?-grown men have been known to cry! Ever try to get a telephone in the Virgin Islands? Ever try to get the operator?-busy signals for hours on end. Ever get charged a service charge for placing a long distance call that doesn't answer? Ever see thousands of inhabitants with no telephones for years?-look at Puerto Rico and ITT. Maybe President Geneen hasn't opened that attache case...
...exaggerating the snares you discredited the science of statistics. Even though my students affectionately call it "sadistics," Lord Kelvin's maxim still applies: "Unless yon have measured it, you don't know what you are talking about...
Spartan & Sprint. As presently envisioned, the system will not handle what defense theorists call a "sophisticated attack." Such an attack would involve 400 to 600 incoming Soviet missiles traveling at 18,000 m.p.h., carrying devices aimed at confusing U.S. radar and bristling with multiple warheads. Rather, the network will be designed to cope with a "primitive attack," involving the sort of strike that Peking may be capable of mounting by the 1970s. Total cost of this "thin" or "austere" defense, as the Pentagon calls it, is estimated at $3.5 billion...
...Chairman Wilbur Mills impatiently twirled his cigarette holder and fired off barbed questions, seven leading economists trooped before the House Ways and Means Committee last week to support the Administration's call for a 10% surtax on personal and corporate incomes. Well over 300 academic economists mobilized by Walter W. Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, added their written endorsement. Then came businessmen declaring themselves fit to be tithed and a covey of Administration officials pleading for higher taxes...
Printers occasionally mix up lines of newspaper stories (they call it "pied type">, but one story in the New York Times last week was positively pie-eyed...