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...northwest Mexico without your own phone? No problem. "Virtual telephone service" to the rescue. Come spring you can get your own number and confidential voice mailbox and, by calling from any public phone, retrieve messages left by other callers. The Trilogue system, patented by Comverse Technology of Woodbury, N.Y., provides instant hookup in areas where expensive phone installation may take months, even years. "I call it entry-level service," says Comverse spokesman Paul Baker. "We're bringing the modern telephone to the grass roots...
...phoned on electionday and offered a ride, undecideds will be visitedagain tomorrow. In this primary, no candidaterelies on television spots to do the job. It takesold-fashioned shoe-leather politics. Every votethat Harkin gets represents one or two visits by acampaign worker, several phone calls and brochuresstuffed in the mailbox...
...atmosphere is made worse because about 3% of supervisors over the rank of sergeant are women, in part owing to lack of seniority. Milwaukee police officer Kay Hanna remembers being reprimanded for going to the bathroom while on duty. Chicago Lieut. DeWitte found condoms and nude centerfolds in her mailbox when she started working patrol...
...every move open to scrutiny by outsiders. "I see no reason why McDonald's needs to know my Social Security number or my previous job title," complains New York Law School professor E. Donald Shapiro, a privacy specialist. "The danger is not that direct-marketing companies will clog your mailbox or call you during dinner to hawk commemorative coins," says David Linowes, former chairman of the U.S. Privacy Protection Commission. "The danger is that employers, banks and government agencies will use data bases to make decisions about our lives without our knowing about...
...Other than spending lots of money and putting literature [in every mailbox across the city] nothing works better than a slate," says Glenn S. Koocher '71, a longtime observer of Cambridge politics...