Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Telephone had always been downright neighborly. Almost everybody recognizes by voice the 19 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...
...commander once declaimed: "You legionnaires are soldiers in order to die and I am sending you where you can die." Today, the French army is not so quick to send them to that fate. Early this year a number of commandos left the legion -in order to join the Rhodesian army...
President Giscard's appearance at the meeting broke a 16-year French boycott of disarmament talks. In a wide-ranging speech, Giscard indicated that France would be disposed to join a new U.N. disarmament commission, provided it was not dominated by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., as the French claim the present Geneva-based disarmament committee has been. Such a commission, explained a French aide, could lure the Chinese into the arms debate for the first time...
...season has not yet finished for Harvard tennis, however. Lundy, freshman Don Pompan and junior Scott Walker will represent Harvard in the Prentice Cup competition in England this summer. Three players from Yale will join the Crimson racquetmen on the seven-week, all-expenses-paid trip...
...works were mainly photographs of the obvious sort, but one contributor provided an actual rattrap sprung on an unfortunate male, and one mysteriously offered a collection of sea shells. For anyone inspired to join in at the last moment, there was a booth equipped with a Polaroid camera...