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...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...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Sentimental Favoritism | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 6, 1987 | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones Get Smart | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...controversy started on January 22, when a senior member of the Dial Lodge eating club allegedly harrassed a junior woman visiting the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

Afraid that your commanding officer is a spy? Convinced that your brother-in- law is selling secrets to the Soviets? Then dial 1-800 CALL-SPY. After a yearlong trial run at four bases around the nation, the Army will introduce a plan next month that will allow soldiers and civilian employees to report suspects simply by calling a toll-free number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Dialing For Spies | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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