Word: linemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sitting before her television set one day last week, Mrs. Luke Choplin of Independence, Mo. watched with fascination as Prince Rainier took Grace Kelly for his bride. While Mrs. Choplin kept her eye on far-off Monaco, linemen toiled away equipping her house with extra telephone wires to accommodate a New York Times reporter who had arranged to use the Choplin home as a communications center on Margaret Truman's wedding...
...Switch to Salt. Bell Labs' war on the grey squirrel dates back to the turn of the century, when the company first became conscious of the squirrels' appetite for the lead sheath in which telephone wires are encased. After the squirrels gnaw through the sheath, linemen found, moisture gets at the paper insulation around the wires, causing a short circuit and disrupting communications. Engineers went to work to find out what it is in the lead that appeals to squirrels. According to one theory, the squirrels are suffering from a nutritional disorder caused by a lack of calcium...
...Linemen of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. were out on the road last week busily repairing the damage done to telephone cables by one of their most persistent natural enemies: the Sciurus carolinensis, or Eastern grey squirrel. To the engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories, the problem is old stuff. In an average year, they figure, the grey squirrel gnaws through some half million dollars worth of U.S. cable. So far, no one has found a feasible way to stop...
...grads watch Halfback John David Crow and are happily reminded of that Aggie immortal, Jarrin' John Kimbrough. The hard-charging linemen are many, mean and magnificent, and recently the squad elected Sophomore Jim Stanley as the meanest of the bunch. "Shucks," said the dark-eyed guard who knows an Aggie compliment when he hears it, "that's an awful big honor...
Harvard's occasional effectiveness in the air, in fact, might be symbolic of the whole season: a 3-4-1 record compiled by a good team which never quite lived up to its potential. With spirit and ability such as that displayed Saturday by linemen Bill Meigs and Orville Tice, it could have done far better...