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People in the 21st century will wear their telephones like jewelry, with microphones hidden in necklaces or lapel pins and miniature speakers tucked behind each ear, predicts Nobelist Penzias, vice president of research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Every phone customer will have long since been issued a personal number that follows him everywhere -- home, the office, the beach. Thanks to a telecommunications system that will link phone networks, cable-TV systems, satellite broadcasts and multimedia libraries, getting connected to anything or anyone in the most remote parts of the world will be a simple matter. This easy access will...
Today a crew-cut Slater walks Denver's streets in a gray wool suit with a small Klan pin on his lapel. He carries a cocky attitude and a black Samsonite briefcase; inside is a copy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell's White Power. His favorite slogan -- "Equal Rights for Everybody; Special Privileges for Nobody" -- even shows a gift for glib phrasemaking...
...open homosexual who customarily wears the pink triangle of gay liberation on his lapel, Morris regularly criticizes others in the dance community for failing to come out. "I'm tired of choreographers who are gay pretending that they are straight," he says. In his dances, duets are often performed by dancers of the same sex and androgynous dress is pushed to the point where men have worn tutus. Says Morris: "Passing is a way of agreeing with the prevalent culture that gay is a bad thing. I'm out partly because...
...conferences in which the hostage families and dear friends pounded on the nation's attention to force Americans to keep them in mind when many would have just as soon forgotten. The captives did not know that people they had never met wore a tiny yellow ribbon on their lapel every day for seven years, with the words FREE THE HOSTAGES...
About a decade ago, Reliance Insurance launched an ambitious office- automation project with the slogan "Paper Free in 1983." The Philadelphia-based insurer had the words emblazoned on wall posters, coffee cups, stationery and lapel buttons. It invested millions of dollars in information technology, including thousands of computers, an electronic-mail system and a brand-new telecommunications network. Managers waited for worker productivity to explode...