Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmer, who works full time for Dukakis, believes that fund-raising letters are next to useless. Real donations come through phone conversations or, even better, personal visits. Last spring he spent two months meeting with hundreds of potential givers and collectors. He was on the road 39 out of 42 days recently, and is about to embark on a 25-city visit to his local operatives. If Dukakis wins the nomination, Farmer will turn his energies to raising money for the Democratic Party. And should his candidate win, would there be a job for Farmer? As Dukakis once joked, perhaps...
...Picture phones have been just around the corner for 30 years. Now they are finally starting to appear in U.S. homes and offices. Since last fall, Mitsubishi Electric of America has sold 64,000 of its new VisiTel units, a $400 device that looks like a TV with a 4 1/2-in. screen but also has a built- in camera lens and a cord that plugs into a telephone jack. Callers who pose in front of a VisiTel and push the button marked "send" can swap black- and- white "snapshots" of each other over the phone lines -- provided, of course, that...
...defeat in the California gubernatorial election in 1962. In the clownish 5 o'clock shadow of the first Nixon-Kennedy television debate. In the "I am not a crook" protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted the "Enemies List," vowing not to hate his haters, waving bravely from the chopper door, then flying back to California toward a town with a name that sounds like clemency...
...incidents, at the Geneva summit in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev seemed to be getting the better of Reagan in quotesmanship, Speakes recalled in a phone interview last week. As he rode along frigid Lake Geneva in his car, he searched his notes for a good Reagan quote to feed the ravenous media. He knew Reagan's reasons for going to the summit. He knew he could put them into words the President would approve. Propelled by the intensity of the moment and his sense of power, he slid into deceit...
...breed of lightning- fast silicon chips challenges 25 years of computer design. -- Has the picture phone finally arrived...