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Washington used to get a good chuckle from a gag about life in the White House with Dick and Pat Nixon. On a typical evening in the mansion, the phone rings and the caller asks the President what he is doing. Answers Nixon: "I'm just sitting here reading the Constitution, and Pat is knitting an American flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fragmentation of Powers | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Roger Goldberger was relaxing at home after work when the phone rang. As soon as he answered, an unfamiliar voice blurted out a string of obscenities, then the caller hung up. Goldberger, a department-store manager in Harrisburg, Pa., calmly pressed *69 on his telephone, triggering an automatic return of the call. A phone rang; the same male voice answered. "You just called my house, and I don't appreciate what you said!" shouted Goldberger. The stunned teenager mumbled an apology and then asked, "How did you know it was me?" "It was easy," Goldberger replied. "My telephone is smarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones Get Smart | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...CLASS option -- Identa Call -- can save lives. When equipped with this feature, a phone displays the caller's number on a small screen. In Atlantic City, N.J., employees at the Bally's Casino Hotel came to the aid of a heart- attack victim after the feature was programmed into the hotel's internal phone system last November. The guest had placed a desperate call to the front desk but could not stay on the phone long enough to give a name or room number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones Get Smart | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Talbott said yesterday that BB&N officialsreceived an anonymous phone call last winter inwhich the caller suggested that Washburn mighthave engaged in sexual misconduct with students atthe school...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Freshman Crew Head Indicted For Rape | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...callers began to speak, the recording interrupted with "what did you say your name was?" and another beep. Then the message requested the caller to "speak up and maybe a little louder," and again added a fake beep. It ended with "If you're not going to speak up you can just go"--another fake beep--"yourself," Siegal says...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: When Students Reach Out and Touch Someone or Something | 3/6/1987 | See Source »

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