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Abusive calls have increased so much in recent years-New England Telephone Co. estimates up to 1,500 a month are made in its area-that A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel has called for a crackdown, and individual Bell companies are now declaring statewide "wars on obscene calls." Their most effective weapon is an electronic device known as "called-party holding," which the telephone company hooks up free. It consists of a small signal box that is linked to the nearest central office. By simply pushing the button on the box, the victim signals the central office, which immediately locks...
Rising Tempers. If so, the accord is hardly apparent. A.T. &T. Chairman Frederick Kappel has denounced the inquiry as "totally unwarranted and unnecessary," predicted that it will be "painfully slow and costly," with the "telephone-using public the loser...
...Chrysler transmission had dropped out after only 2,000 miles and another beefed about a sticky car window. A.T. & T.'s 80th annual meeting in Philadelphia was interrupted by a woman who raced down the aisle in clown's costume to protest that Chairman Frederick R. Kappel had opened the meeting improperly. "Keep still long enough," barked Kappel, "and I'll answer your questions. This meeting is not being run by Robert's [Rules of Order]; it's being run by me." Three guards and a policewoman finally restrained the clown, but Kappel was constantly...
...Taft-Hartley law's section authorizing state right-to-work laws. Then, after sandwiching in a buffet supper for some 1,500 White House staffers, the President greeted 14 business leaders. As he always does, Johnson impressed the businessmen, and A. T. & T.'s Frederick R. Kappel spoke for them all when he reported that the President "is being extremely wise in his thoughtful evaluation" of the U.S. economy...
...friendly executive whose great strength is persuasion and persistence; his skill is convincing people that the impossible is possible-and then seeing that it gets done. Moving up from A.T. & T.'s vice chairmanship, he becomes the firm's chief operating executive under Chairman Frederick R. Kappel, who faces mandatory retirement at 65 in January...