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...Soviet militiamen guarding the American embassy on Tchaikovsky Street in Moscow stared in surprise as the chauffeured limousine pulled up. Out of his official car stepped a leading member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was ushered into the office of a ranking embassy official, who received his caller with all the ceremony and respect due one of the world's greatest thermonuclear physicists and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
...heard an interesting story from Iowa, a follow-up to our Jan. 31 cover on the Big Freeze. The Saturday night after that issue came out, Gordon Neal, at home on his Mount Vernon farm, got an unexpected phone call. The caller: President Jimmy Carter, who had been reading TIME and had seen our reference to the Neals' frozen water pipe. The two chatted about the fuel crisis, Neal's 160-acre farm and the weather. It turned out that Neal's pipe had burst and been repaired. He had, in fact, been in the bathtub when...
Before he retired, Hoy married a deaf mute named Anna Maria, who taught at a school for the deaf in Cincinnati. His teammates were intrigued by the couple's unusual doorbell. The caller pulled a knob which released a lead ball on the floor. The Hoys heard the vibrations through their feet and knew someone was at the door...
...anonymous phone caller informed the Cambridge police that a bomb would go off in the dining room within five minutes. But when three policemen arrived at 8:40 no bomb had gone...
...guards found no signs of a bomb that an anonymous phone caller said was planted in the building, and the meeting resumed after the brief interruption...