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Five numerals and a prefix was hard enough. Seven numerals was clearly pushing it. With the addition of three more digits-for area code -phone numbers became endless strings of digits, impossible for all but the strong-minded to remember. Was there a way to give them shape, meaning, character? What about referring to the dial and decoding the digits back into letter form-changing telephone numbers into telephone names? That way, 255-7465 made ALL PINK, 744-7226 the even more colorful PIGS CAN. The telephonetics game was slow in starting, but today it is only the phone company...
...Detroit office and wondered whether, in police parlance, he had been "set up." As one of the 75 members of Michigan Clergy for Problem Pregnancy Counseling, he had been called earlier by a man who urgently wanted an appointment. But the car outside carried the "EU 1" license-tag prefix that, the minister knew from his work around the city, is allotted to the Detroit police department. Was this a raid by policemen seeking to smash an "abortion ring...
...Police Chief Dominick Arena and Associate Dukes County Medical Examiner Dr. Donald Mills-and the residents of Edgartown and Chappaquiddick. One of the latter is Christopher ("Huck") Look Jr., a part-time deputy sheriff, who can testify that he saw two people in a black car with the license prefix "L" (Kennedy's license plate was L-78207) heading for the Dike Bridge at approximately 12:45 a.m., an hour and a half after Kennedy said that he and Mary Jo had left for the ferry. Another is Russell Peachey, co-owner of Edgartown's Shiretown Inn, where...
...than any other French publication and is less strident in its criticism of the U.S. role in Viet Nam. But it also makes a point of defending French standards against the onslaught of foreign customs, has tried to ban everything from bubble gum to the English-language prefix "super." "We've always been non-engage," says Editor Louis Gabriel-Robinet. "We've never belonged to any political party-just the party of balance...
...York City, Justice Maurice Wahl refused to permit one Robert Paul Jama to add "von" to his last name. In his ruling, Judge Wahl noted that "von" occurred as a prefix in German and Austrian names, "especially of the nobility," and cited Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the grant of any title of nobility. "I'm a veteran of both World Wars," declared Judge Wahl, "and when this fellow had the nerve to say he wanted a German genealogy because all his friends and acquaintances were German, that was too much...