Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband, Sir Robert Jackson, a former U.N. official and economist who specializes in helping emerging nations develop their resources, have visited the White House five times. Before the President gave his inaugural address, he called Barbara Ward in London and read it for her approval over the phone. And in recent months she has fed the President's top personal aide, Jack Valenti, a steady stream of memos offering advice on all manner of problems...
...abuse was pouring into Gandar's office from an angry public that seemed to think Verwoerd should get far tougher with the Mail. "Hang down your head in shame! You have done irreparable harm to our wonderful country," wrote one irate reader. Staffers have also received threatening phone calls, and students from Witwatersrand University were picketing the Mail's offices last week with bitter placards: "News, Not Abuse," and "Is it Worth it, Gandar?" But now and then came the kind of reaction that Gandar was proud to print: "One day the whole of South Africa will thank...
...hope for democracy. Today we are not thinking of the Latin Americans in terms of throwing them another $2,000,000 just to get them out of our hair." This week Vaughn moves on to Bolivia and Peru, then returns to the U.S. When he gets home, maybe the phone will start ringing at midnight...
...telephone used to be a friend, something you said hello to and took for granted. But since the advent of direct dialing and seven-digit phone numbers plus area code, the square black box, which no longer is necessarily either square or black, has inspired admiration in some, irritation in others. Both the admiration and the irritation make little difference, because increasingly there is no real person to talk to anyway...
Useful Frills. Taped announcements already do everything from saying a prayer to giving out the movie schedule. And now the recordings are heading for homes. Newly elaborated devices will answer the owner's phone with a taped message from him and record callers' messages, then play them back to the missing owner even when he calls in from outside. Unlike answering services, which suffer from human manning, the machines never miss a call, never foul up a message, and are never rude...