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...crank system. As many as 23 customers have been known to share a single line. Courtesy requires that a party-liner give a little ring when signing off to notify the others that the line is clear. One sociable lady has made a habit of giving a little ding when she comes on, extending an invitation to her neighbors to tune in for lively listening. Eighty years ago, when the first switchboard occupied the back of Dudley's Store, impromptu musicales were broadcast along party lines, featuring a harmonica player named Davis...
...Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulders asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't would...
...military action against Palestinian forces in Lebanon. Washington seems to have no ideas on how to stop him. China threatens increasingly loudly to downgrade relations with the U.S. if the Administration goes through with a $60 million arms sale to Taiwan. Said one State Department official: "We get a ding a day from the Chinese." At week's end there were rumors of a compromise but no confirmation. In a Washington speech last week, Reagan once more declared ringingly that "the American people will not accept martial law [in Poland]. They demand that Lech Walesa and the political prisoners...
...courtly ritual marked by parting gifts and deferential staff tributes. That was not the way things went when NBC News President William Small, 55, was forced to resign two weeks ago. Reporters at NBC's Washington bureau danced in the corridors when they heard the news, singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Someone ripped the name plates from the doors of NBC Correspondents Bernard and Marvin Kalb, who had followed longtime CBS News Executive Small to NBC in 1980. Meanwhile, at NBC headquarters in New York City, the news staff gleefully made up "an endangered species list...
...Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulder asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't, would...