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...Hutchinson Family drew abolitionist admirers like William Lloyd Garrison. Today's folk singers are lyrically lashing out at everything from nuclear fallout (What Have They Done to the Rain?) and the American Medical Association ("We really love to stitch/ The diseases of the rich"), to direct-digit dialing ("560 million, 900,000 more, 137, extension 24"). But not since labor's big national organizing drive of the 1930s, when nearly everyone in the country knew at least a few lines of We Shall Not Be Moved, has there been such an outpouring of original songs as has been...
...telephone company, one of the most awesome monopolies of them all, has stepped up its program of numerifying its subscribers with total-digit dialing, a truly ugly business. The Department of Defense, clutching its monopoly over selective service, has long regarded the populace as a vast network of draft numbers. Other government agencies holding other monopolies are beginning to follow suit...
...repeated it accurately. For more than an hour the long-distance conversation continued, carried on in a language of carefully spaced pulses of radio energy. At Goldstone these pulses appeared as mere dots on a slowly moving tape. But each combi nation of dots represented numbers in the two-digit binary code that computers understand best. Finally, Goldstone sent "Signal RTC-6," which told Mariner II to execute all the commands one hour later...
...Three cheers for S. I. Hayakawa [July 13] and the Anti-Digit Dialing League. ROBERT E. FORMAN aliases: 137-806 (bank account number) 473-20-6385 (social security number) 655-728-245 (hospital insurance number) 18-232-926 (life insurance policy number) 221836 } (various 5-2472 } credit 643-701-443-6 } account numbers) Oshkosh...
...counterpart of the Anti-Digit Dialing League [July 13] in the past would likely have campaigned against the introduction of dial telephones on the grounds that the human society would become too technologically oriented; human relations would be better served by retaining the feminine operator to place all calls...