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...contrast to 1947, when a walkout of 370,000 workers snarled the nation's telephone communications for 44 days, the 84-million-phone Bell System is now all but invulnerable to shutdown by strike. Only 18 of Bell's towns (among them: York, Ala., Nashwauk, Minn.) are still served by manual switchboards; elsewhere, automated equipment has eliminated the need for operators on 99.8% of local calls and 91% of long-distance calls. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. insists that its new gear can function without attention indefinitely. And even union men concede that, thanks to up-from...
...said Leo Tolstoy in 1908, when he was 80, peering into the future of an infant art. He might have altered his opinion had he seen this Russian adaptation of his masterwork, War and Peace. It has escaped greatness, except in cost and length. The film took $100 million and five years to make. After extensive cutting it is now six hours and twelve minutes long. In the Soviet Union it was released in four different segments; in the U.S., audiences must see it at two separate showings...
...Last year, according to Walt Disney Productions, 240 million people throughout the world saw a Disney movie, 100 million watched a Disney TV show every week, 800 million read a Disney book or magazine, 50 million heard Disney music, 150 million read a Disney comic strip, and 7,900,000 visited Disneyland...
...request for financial help from Radcliffe seniors is part of a $30 million fund raising campaign over the next few years...
Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.) took second place in Choice '68, which polled over a million students on the upcoming elections and the Vietnam...