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Roger Goldberger was relaxing at home after work when the phone rang. As soon as he answered, an unfamiliar voice blurted out a string of obscenities, then the caller hung up. Goldberger, a department-store manager in Harrisburg, Pa., calmly pressed *69 on his telephone, triggering an automatic return of the call. A phone rang; the same male voice answered. "You just called my house, and I don't appreciate what you said!" shouted Goldberger. The stunned teenager mumbled an apology and then asked, "How did you know it was me?" "It was easy," Goldberger replied. "My telephone is smarter...
Eventually it got to be too much. When the speaker for the fifth time rang out "MARIAN? MARIAN? MARIAN? ARE YOU THERE? IS MARIAN THERE?" I screamed: "YES, damn it, its true! She's been lying here all along! Marian is here! HA HA HA HA! I kidnapped Marian...
...little-noticed part of the Social Security Act; it was conceived as a program to tide widows and their children over until the Social Security survivors' fund could pay out claims. Expanded and made independent, AFDC has since mushroomed into a program that last year rang up $2 billion in federal, state and local administrative costs and dispensed an estimated $15.8 billion in benefits to 3.7 million families comprising 11 million people. Almost half of AFDC recipients these days are mothers who have never been married to the father of their children, and 40% more are those whose husbands have...
Then came the bills. One youngster was so hooked on Scoopline that he ran up $7,000 worth of charges in two months. Mountain Bell last month suspended the service in Utah until Ultraphone agreed to warn all callers about the fees as they rang on. Two weeks ago Mountain Bell canceled Scoopline in Albuquerque. Ultraphone has offered to provide a 24-hour adult monitor to police the chatter, a solution that seems to be working in Utah. Insists Betsy Superfon, vice president of Ultraphone: "Scoopline is a great way for people to meet new friends." But for youngsters...
...most part was as smooth as ever, though it turned a bit raspy toward the end. All the old conservative themes ("we've created a welfare monster"), all the usual ebullient optimism ("freedom is on the march"), all the familiar patriotic flourishes ("starting the third century of a dream") rang through his 40-minute talk. Relieved supporters told one another that the President's sixth State of the Union address was "vintage Reagan...