Word: directionality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operators who handle Avalon's manual switchboard, which is the last such one in the Bell system. Not for long. Because of increasing hordes of summer tourists and hard-to-replace parts, Santa Catalina will join the computer age this week when its switchboard is replaced by a direct-dial system...
Many of the locals are upset by the prospect. A human voice at the end of the line instead of an electronic buzz has heightened Avalon's sense of community. A direct-dial system means no more neighborly gossip and no more baby announcements over the phone. People used to ask questions like "Where can I reach Lucy's sister?" or "How long do you broil a steak?" Now they will have to go elsewhere for the answers...
...some uncertainty about Moscow's ultimate intentions. Brzezinski leans to the second view, which is that the Soviets have a grand design for Africa and the Middle East. In addition to seizing a commanding position on the rim of the crucial oil routes, their goal would be to gain direct access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, a dream that goes back to czarist times...
Soviet military aid to Cuba-at least $9 billion since 1961-makes Castro's African adventurism possible and helps direct its course. Nonetheless, Castro has reasons of his own for the involvement. To achieve his goal of becoming a hero and leader of the Third World, Castro has returned to his unsuccessful romantic gambit of the '60s: exporting revolution. Says Foreign Affairs Expert Helmut Sonnenfeldt of Johns Hopkins University: "Castro has a sense of mission in Africa. Perhaps it's a sublimation of his inability to do anything in the Western Hemisphere...
...most people, those are the lyrics of a 1935 Fats Waller song, Spreadin' Rhythm Around. But to audiences at Broadway's Longacre Theater, they are official marching orders, a direct command from the feet to the brain. Not since Fats was tapping the keys back in speakeasy days has old Manhattan had such a good high-hattin' time as it does in Ain 't Misbehavin', a musical collection of 30 songs Waller composed or helped to make famous. To put it mildly, Ain't Misbehavin ' is behaving wildly. Three days after it opened...