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...woman, often in a city apartment. Until now, her only way out of such repeated and nerve-shattering harassment has been to change the telephone number and have it unlisted. For, as she quickly discovers, simply hanging up does not break the circuit, which is controlled by the caller. To apprehend him, the police tell the victim to keep the caller talking until they can trace the call and, in some cases, have her make an appointment with the caller...
...known as "called-party holding," which the telephone company hooks up free. It consists of a small signal box that is linked to the nearest central office. By simply pushing the button on the box, the victim signals the central office, which immediately locks the circuit. Even if the caller hangs up, the circuit remains open and the telephone company can begin tracing the call...
...last week, the phone rang in the big white stucco house on Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
...largely musicians, musicologists, music teachers and students. They were gathered to hear the neglected music of P.D.Q. Bach, the least-known offspring of Johann Sebastian. The opening Concerto for Horn and Hardart got off to a lively start when blaaaaaaat! It was Soloist Peter Schickele blowing on a duck caller attached to the "concert grand Hard-art," a four-wheel, coin-operated contraption that looked like a junkyard reject. As the music went sailing off in directions unknown, Schickele merrily blasted away on a kazoo, ocarina, bike horns, buzzers and doorbells. For a finale, he punctured six balloons with...
...involvement, an involvement so personal that only his reputation as a scholar can ameliorate charges of prejudice in the historian. On the day after the assassination, a friend remembers talking to him on the telephone. He could barely speak. There were intervals of silence, so protracted that the caller wondered if he was still on the line. His final peroration on Kennedy in A Thousand Days is more accolade than judgment. "The energies he released, the standards he set, the purposes he inspired, the goals he established would guide the land he loved for years to come. Above...