Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once this would have been resented by powerful A. T. & T., which for decades battled fiercely with the independents. But now there is peace. A. T. & T. has agreed not to raid the independents, makes generous revenue splits with them on interchanges of calls ($190 million in 1958). Fearful of Government antitrust suits (it narrowly squeezed out of a 1949 suit), A. T. & T. is only too happy to have the independents around as proof that it is far from a nationwide monopoly...
Your caves of Rosenburg Hill story [Jan. 5] brought back many memories, as I was one of the first to be taken into Belgium's ancient quarried hillside honeycomb in 1944. The townspeople of nearby Maastricht had used one small segment of these quarries as an air raid shelter capable of housing 70,000 people easily. The Queen Wilhelmina art collection, including Rembrandt's The Nightwatch, was stored away in them with full cooperation from the Germans, who never realized that running right alongside the air raid shelter and art sanctuary was a path to freedom for Allied...
Lord Beaverbrook holds other grudges against Mountbatten. He blames him for planning the ill-starred World War II raid on Dieppe, in which 3,369 of Beaver-brook's fellow Canadians were casualties. But the feeling goes deeper. Noel Coward's wartime movie In Which We Serve was built around his friend Mountbatten's own heroism as commander of the destroyer Kelly. Beaverbrook blames Mountbatten for not getting Coward to delete a shot of drowning sailors, in which a copy of the Daily Express floats by, with its famed 1939 headline: THERE WILL BE NO WAR THIS...
...night raid on the Arnold Arboretum removes its dried plant specimens. Police are baffled, but Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr. says that the culprits will be brought to justice for removal of state's evidence. Dean Bundy has no comment. "What the Dean means to say," his attorney comments, "is no comment...
Those of the Harvard Community who heard about last night's Green Mountain raid raised a storm of protest. Jane Fletcher '59 commented, "I didn't really want to be a cheerleader very much myself, but I think that those girls who did have the energy should be allowed...