Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost Oriental time schedules. Appliance repairmen are as devoted to the mañana principle as Mexican peons: department stores promise delivery of goods in weeks rather than days; the Post Office makes the Pony Express seem like the very model of rapid transit. The wait for a dial tone or an operator can be a foretaste of purgatory. For some parts of industry, the process of slowing down may be just a matter of inefficiency and indifference. For the counterculture, with its commitment to a more organic way of life, it is a matter of ethics and aesthetics. Like...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN by Ernest J. Games. 245 pages. Dial...
...published on Manhattan's Upper West Side, begins by noting that life there "can be a delightful thing." That said, the editors offer a cutout page of emergency telephone numbers-for firemen, police, suicide prevention, addict assistance, a 24-hour locksmith, air pollution, a poison-control center and dial-a-prayer. The recorded prayer: "Oh Lord, I am very aware that I live in a world of muggers and purse snatchers. I earnestly pray for help to keep my perspective . . . and even if I am a victim of a crime, that I might pray for those who have thus...
...began operations last month after a year of secret dry runs to work out the bugs, has a straightforward purpose: to bring strangers with similar interests together on a huge party line for information and fun (the group's) and profit (TeleSessions). To take part in "discussions you dial into," subscribers call TeleSessions' Manhattan number, specify their area of interest and are assigned to one of the groups. At the appointed hour (usually once a week), TeleSessions calls the subscriber to connect him with as few as ten or as many as two dozen other participants...
...Dial-a-Buclc. The most popular new gadget is the "television teller." As installed in Los Angeles' Surety National Bank, among others, it seems straight out of 1984. Customers enter the lobby and go up to television screens that show only the faces of tellers, who are safely locked away on the second floor. All transactions are conducted through an intercom and pneumatic tubes. One unit with tube attachments costs from $11,000 to $23,000. Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank is installing an expensive computer-controlled alarm network that connects all its branches with the central office...