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...capabilities for tabulating, modeling or recording. Those capabilities can be multiplied almost indefinitely by plugging it into a network of other computers. This is generally done by attaching a desktop model to a telephone line (two-way cables and earth satellites are coming increasingly into use). One can then dial an electronic data base, which not only provides all manner of information but also collects and transmits messages: electronic mail...
Harried and hurried, AT&T's 227,000 supervisory personnel worked shifts as long as 14 hours to fill in for the strikers. Thanks to the high level of automation in the phone system, most service continued to be remarkably smooth. Direct-dial calls generally zipped through the computerized networks with no trouble. But people who needed information or help in making long-distance calls encountered bothersome delays. Mary Lynn Graham, an Ohio State University journalism student, had to try four times over 30 minutes before successfully making a collect call to her parents in Dayton. Ohio Bell reported...
...Dean: $250) facing charges of sodomy and sexual abuse of his girlfriend's 15-year-old sister. Some black residents argue that the inability of the city's predominantly white police force to cope with crime in their areas also lies behind rage like Williams'. "You dial 911 and half the time the car won't come," says Councilman Collins. "I'm not indicting the police-there are just too many criminals, too much crime...
FATAL OBSESSION by Stephen Greenleaf Dial; 250 pages...
...nature of this relationship was illustrated in the deaths last week of two American journalists, Dial Torgerson and Richard Cross, who were killed when their white, rented Toyota was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade on a road in Honduras near the Nicaraguan border (see PRESS). Nicaraguan soldiers apparently added machine-gun fire to the damage of the grenade. This kind of story always startles people, though it is hard...