Word: coversation
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Many telephone companies, which charge anywhere from 10? to $2 for various kinds of 976 calls, are reaping big profits. Bell of Pennsylvania has 21 different 976 numbers and plans to add 64 more. Pacific Bell, which covers Los Angeles and San Francisco, earns about $250,000 a week from...
All of these zealots die in the course of the book, victims of their inability to see beyond their fanatic blinders. Ironically, the only fanatic who lives is the one who can see the least, the myopic reporter who covers the events in Canudos. Judging from the casualty list, the...
* A light-year is the distance that light, traveling at 186,000 miles per sec., covers in one year.
Two weeks ago, a white Mercedes-Benz truck with SOVTRANSAVTO painted in blue Cyrillic letters on its side pulled up to the Swiss border at Basel. The nine-ton tractor-trailer did not need to be inspected, the three Soviets inside insisted, because it was merely a "diplomatic pouch." But...
DIED. Peter Kurd, 80, acclaimed artist of the American Southwest whose paintings, murals and lithographs depicted the sere, light-drenched landscapes and unworldly local personalities of his native New Mexico; of complications of Alzheimer's disease; in Roswell, N. Mex. A West Point dropout who studied with N.C. Wyeth...