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...Alan sits at home and attends class via a two-way telephone hookup, paid for by the school board. Teachers and students must speak loudly so that the apparatus, which is moved from room to room, can pick up the voices. A teacher writing on a blackboard must be sure to pronounce what she writes, and to explain diagrams. Alan, unable to get recognition by raising his hand, just interrupts by phone to recite. It's all rather distracting, but at least Alan will be able to take his final exams, graduate, and go on to use his scholarship...
...hill in Brookline. Begining the morning after the assault, he spoke daily with officials of the hospital in Cuenca where the victims were being treated, and with the American Embassy in Quito. Every morning he connected the home phones of the Nortons and Paynters into his 4000-mile radio hookup, and they were able to follow the progress of the victims as if they were in the neighborhood hospital...
Seldom had a Dutch television show drawn so large an audience. Before a nationwide hookup, Parliament was debating a bill approving the marriage of Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, to West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, 39. Ever since the engagement was announced last spring, Von Amsberg has been attacked bitterly because he served in Hitler's army...
Murphy admitted that none of the fire alarms in the Houses along the Charles River were functional during the powerless period. The alarms are supplied by the 550-volt hookup. Only the battery-powered emergency lights switched on, and they lasted for no more than two hours. They were not intended to be a permament light source, Murphy said, but merely to provide light for escape from buildings during fires...
Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy will present a forum on United States Asian policy, including a special national telephone hookup, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Sanders Theatre...