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...already offering two new versions of its standard telephone that show the way the phone is going. Both instruments have key pads and display the date and time or the number of the person being called on calculator-style windows. The Touch-a-matic 1600 ($160) can store up to 16 phone numbers. The $680 Genesis Telesystem, which AT&T Chairman Charles L. Brown uses at home, can forward calls to another number, remember 75 alphabetized names and numbers and restrict outgoing calls...
...more conversations at lower cost, AT&T is stuck with millions of miles of old-fashioned copper wire and coaxial cable. Also on its books are millions of old dial telephones, built to work for 40 years but less versatile than newer high-tech models like its Touch-matic, which automatically dials up to 15 numbers...
...stating this, I don't express the fanatical sports enthusiasm of those who play Strat-o-Matic baseball and memorize the statistics of every Major League player. I didn't even know that Dave Rignetti was sent to the last year. I missed, on purpose, the NCAA basketball finals, and really didn't care that N.C. State scored an upset I only watch golf tournaments when Jack Nicklaus is on the leader's board...
...third annual Strat-o-Matic baseball league got underway yesterday with its first-ever fall draft
...plastics, superhighways and suburban tracts. The entire culture seemed to have teen-age glands. New, unsettling dimensions suddenly opened: the interstate highway system, the picture window, the grainy little black-and-white universe of television. Gas was cheap, and bright big-finned Detroit cars with Dynaflow or Hydra-Matic swooshed Americans up and down the landscape in rhapsodies of mobility, well-being and heedlessness. In 1954, Oklahoma A & M College surveyed its students to ask their greatest fears and problems. The students answered that their greatest worry in the world was finding a parking space...