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More often than not, I give in to the weariness that Cambridge engenders in this thinker's heart, and instead sit at home scanning the TV dial in search of major international disasters. The rest of the time I spend trying to think of gimmicks for the Crimson Ed page. My best idea was to have a contest where the reader who sent in the most drugs (Rutger Fury, c/o Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA 02138) would...
...hard I try, I can't resist sticking my finger back in the proverbial electrical socket. This year was no exception. The Indiana-Syracuse game ended about two and a half hours too early, and the lack of any suitable Hogan's Heroes reruns meant certain doom. My dial was irresistibly drawn over...
...Angeles Correspondent Michael Riley and Reporter Bill Blanning interviewed many of the principals in the story, including Tammy Faye Bakker. Meanwhile, Atlanta Correspondent B. Russell Leavitt assessed the deep Fundamentalism of the Southern states. Says he: "Driving through kudzu-covered country on a Sunday morning and flipping the radio dial, one can hear the evangelists by the score. They are a constant refrain, a fixture in the landscape...
Some programmable phones can now memorize up to 100 numbers, so that users can dial just one or two digits to make a call. Unmanned automatic models can dial a list of other phones and play a recorded sales pitch or other messages. A new, memory-equipped phone from Colonial Data Technologies dials a call when the name of the person desired is spelled on its keyboard...
...controversy started on January 22, when a senior member of the Dial Lodge eating club allegedly harrassed a junior woman visiting the club...