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...HEIGHT of his glory, with Richard Nixon a political four letter word and investigative the only proper prefix to reporting, Bob Woodward, the reporter, became readily interchangeable with Bob Redford, the actor cum social activist who portrayed our hero in All the President's Men. Running from interview to interview, rendezvousing with "deep throat" in D.C. parking garages, Bob Woodward Redford seemed like a hyped-up, race car driver in some charity benefit for the good old public right-to-know...
...success of telephone numbers with the prefix 976, which allow callers to hear short, taped programs containing information and entertainment such as sports highlights and children's stories, has spawned a burgeoning new industry. Dozens of entrepreneurs across the U.S. are forming businesses to produce and supply telephone companies with a seemingly limitless variety of tapes, from Dial-a-Mystery to Gay News. San Francisco's Megaphone, for example, produces daily 60-sec. updates on ten popular TV soap operas, plus a Michael Jackson tape for fans who want frequent bulletins on what their idol is doing...
Only someone who is certifiable would put his name on a prefix column for the Nobel Prize in Literature: but then a fail without football drives men to desperation Would you have picked Icelander Halldor Lawness in '55' Know any couplets by Giosue Carducci '06 Put 'em o n postcard and send 'em in Or how about recent history. Can you even name a bookstore, which carries two books by Vicent Aleixandre '77' In fact. If you knew anything at all about Elias Canetti '81 before last year and your name isn't Susan Sontag...
...repair. Says Daniel Langston, a corporate vice president at Ticor Home Protection Co. of Los Angeles, which insures homeowners against heating, plumbing and electrical malfunctions: "I just do not think that we could operate without our 800 numbers. People are very hesitant about calling a long-distance prefix, but they will always call an 800 number." His firm received 128,120 calls during...
...high-tech data system--which contains information on 495-prefix numbers--will enable the office to schedule repair and installation service regularly with the New England Telephone Company and to insure the work is being completed...