Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Number Calling was the answer to the dilemma. Numbers appear at ten holes on a dial, and ANC gives 800 (8 times 10 times 10) possible three-digit central-office codes* an increase of nearly...
Letters & Holes. There are only eight holes with three letters each on the dial (Q and Z don't rate a spot), producing 64 possible two-letter combinations (letters that begin a recognizable name or word) for exchange-namers to work with...
...Other Side. Certainly least undesirable from the company's point of view, but what about the man on the other side of the dial? Says Dr. Leo Goldberger, of N.Y.U.'s Research Center for Mental Health: "Long series of numbers, such as Army serial numbers, have come to connote loss of individual identity: one becomes-to add insult to injury-not only an insignificant cog in a great machine, but anonymous as well." Unpleasant things, he feels, are not only more difficult to memorize, but also more likely to be forgotten...
...Only eight of the numbers can be used for the first digit of a central office code since 0 (zero), now used to dial the Operator, is also reserved for a future person-to-person prefix; 1 will be used for station-to-station calls...
Died. Henry McBride, 94, twinkly, oracular art critic for the old New York Sim and the magazines Dial and Art News, a Pennsylvania Quaker who started out illustrating seed catalogues and wound up as one of the U.S.'s most influential promoters of modern art, and the intimate of such Parisian cognoscenti as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso; in The Bronx...