Word: converting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bell next year will begin to slowly convert to a fully electronic switching system that will enable the phone user to reach frequently called numbers by dialing only two digits, to call third parties onto the line, and to switch incoming calls to other numbers if he leaves his home or office. What next? At their yellow brick headquarters, which sprawls like a Pentagon of science over the wooded hills of Murray Hill, N.J., Bell's crew-cut mathematicians, physicists and chemists-many of them not yet 30-are working on pocket phones, wristwatch phones, and laser beams that...
...member upper house, plus some 4,000 seats on local councils. Soka Gakkai (the Value-Creation Society) is more than just another party; it is a militantly organized, crusading sect vaguely combining Buddhism with left-wing reform or perhaps revolutionary politics, and its confessed ambition is to convert Japan and then the world...
...Candy meets are out to get her. One, Dr. Krankeit, the hospital psychiatrist, would actually like to convert her. He has written a daring little psychological masterpiece called Masturbation Nowl In it, he contends that "heterosexual love-making is the root of all neuroses, a shabby illusion which misleads the ego." But Krankeit is the exception. Others, like a hunchback in Green-wich, have one simple desire...
...into Texas congressional politics in 1951, Jenkins has devoted his adult life to serving Johnson. He is among the President's most trusted aides, functions as a sort of chief of staff, handling personnel, answering mail, and making minor decisions, all with quiet, unflappable dedication. Jenkins is a convert to Catholicism, has six children, including-like Bobby Baker-a son named Lyndon...
...much political pressure from the French, who have brandished their large hoard of dollars as a weapon and, says Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller, often made U.S. officialdom feel "like mendicants"; last year the French drained off $500 million worth of U.S. gold and threatened to convert even more dollars. No one can be certain if or when the U.S. will achieve a surplus-partly because foreign nations will take steps of their own if they begin to run big deficits. But the Treasury believes that within a year the U.S.'s annual payment position will be within...