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...cost local telephone service is headed the way of hand-crank phones and party lines. Last week the Federal Communications Commission announced that next year local phone companies will be allowed to reach out and touch everybody for an additional $2 a month for a residential line, rising to $3 in 1985 and $4 in 1986. The increases come on top of other new charges sought by local phone companies as a consequence of their upcoming January 1 spin-off from American Telephone & Telegraph. Result: the basic charge for phone service, now about $10 a month across the U.S., will...
...just crank up the stereo, stoke up the boiler and brew some...
...American original, a cranky genius and an ingenious crank. He liked to call himself "an engineer, inventor, mathematician, architect, cartographer, philosopher, poet, cosmologist, comprehensive designer and choreographer." He was also a mystical optimist who believed in the survival of mankind against whatever odds...
...meaning of the symbols is a reasonable one: just as the Confederacy represented a society degrading and oppressive to Blacks, it was unique culture--not necessarily racist--for many established white Southern families. But the reaction to the Black protests by the white students has been blatantly reprehensible. Crank phone calls and death threats to Black student leaders, as well as a "Save the Flag" rally attended by robed Ku Klux Klansmen (seven pictures of which the yearbook printed) indicate the underlying prejudicial hatred still at oxford, Miss...
...George Bernard Shaw as "a blue-rumped ape." Sir Mortimer Durand, His Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S. back then, was denounced as a fellow with "a mind that functions at six guinea-pig power." The Populist Senator William Peffer was immortalized as "a well-meaning, pinheaded, anarchistic crank, of hirsute and slab-sided aspect." That latter bit might make it a little difficult for the victim to throw off the effects with a laugh. Still, all of Morris' research on Roosevelt shows that deep down few adversaries could totally subdue affection for the Republican rouser...