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...still a distinctive part of the 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...
...York City, the 15 million member federation's executive council unanimously approved an ambitious but potentially risky plan to endorse a presidential candidate as early as December 1983. This is before the primaries get under way and is a dramatic repudiation of organized labor's traditional habit of remaining politically neutral until the national conventions nominate candidates. The change would guard against a 1984 collapse of labor unity. In the last general election, 44% of union voters picked Reagan despite their leaders' endorsement of Carter...
...Post the other day ex-Senator J. William Fulbright recalled, "In the old days, when your speeches were reported in the press, reading was clearly a habit with everybody. But in television, it's this sort of instant impression. They always to cut down everything to just a fraction. Your reasons are usually left out because they're not flamboyant...
...best argument for the amendment sees it as a kind of Gordian stroke through the tangled indiscipline and unaccountability of Congress. Nothing less than a constitutional amendment, say its supporters, can break the deeply ingrained habit of profligate spending. The amendment would make it easier for Congressmen to say no. It would make them clearly visible when they said yes. It would force members to think twice about what is now automatic. Thus, argue the sponsors, the amendment would change the working premise of Congress, and begin to break the cycle of profligacy that has pushed the national debt beyond...
...trophies, except for the 3,000 hits and 400 home runs, of course. No other American Leaguer ever achieved that parlay. Only Henry Aaron, Willie Mays and Stan Musial of the National League, and Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz has kept just those two baseballs in 22 years. Yastrzemski's habit is to relay his trophies, like an ordinary cutoff man, to Presidents of the U.S. "I've presented one to every President since Kennedy," he says. "What should I do with awards and trophies? Touch them...