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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer its services to its customers in the most efficient way. And I doubt whether one can argue successfully against the greater efficiency and flexibility of the all-number dialing as opposed to the use of exchange names that a significant portion of the American public cannot even spell...
...possible that the phone company could come to a compromise with its A.D.D.L. users (and the rest of the human race) by simply using three letters whether they spell words or not? S. I. Hayakawa's number, 4 billion something or other, could read 415LUG2301, with each subscriber employing his own mnemonic to remember the letters, such as Loused Up Good...
...entrance to the grounds there hangs an escutcheon on both sides of which is emblazoned: American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Acadamy [sic]. There are more than a hundred acceptable ways to spell the Bard's name, but the road leading into his theatre is not even macadamy...
Astronaut Scott Carpenter held the College spell-bound for the better part of an hour early in examination period: about the same time John Briston Sullivan, a local speculator-promoter-businessman, produced a different kind of uneasiness by threatening to sink a large, ugly, barge in the middle of the Charles River Basin The move would have been part of Sullivan's grand strategy against a group of Boston businessmen in the struggle for riverfront land control; as Cambridge yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan...
Harkins has at least won a breathing spell. Viet Cong raids and ambushes last month averaged 100 a week, as against 135 the month before. Communist casualties reached 6,000, double those of the Vietnamese army. Within weeks, the rainy season will engulf South Viet Nam in torrential downpours, and the fighting seems certain to diminish even further. During the next six months, therefore, the strategic hamlets will have full opportunity to prove themselves. Says Harkins: "I am an optimist, and I am not going to allow my staff to be pessimistic." Echoes Ambassador Nolting...