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Marching into the business office of the small (9,145 telephones) Harrisonville Telephone Co. in the farming community of Waterloo, ILL., recently, a visiting New Yorker demanded to see the president. A complaint, perhaps? Not at all. The visitor had just used one of the three sleek air-conditioned telephone booths outside the building; he merely wanted to pump President Henry W. Gentsch's hand and tell him that the big Bell System could not do better than that back home in New York...
Only eight times in its 181-year history did the Times of London deign to put news on Page One. Nelson's triumph at Trafalgar made it, though not Wellington's victory at Waterloo. The British general strike of 1926 got front-page treatment; not the outbreak of World War II. Winston Churchill never made the first page while he was alive; only his death put him there. Aside from those few departures from tradition, Page One has been devoted to notices and classified advertisements: secretaries looking for work, wives imploring their husbands to return, Tibetan refugees seeking...
...Royal Academy. At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician. The works that won him fame, however, were hardly revolutionary. During his earlier years, Turner churned out Old Testament fantasies, nymphs cavorting in arcadian glades, and historical scenarios of such newsworthy topics as the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar...
...Britain would insist on celebrating the 150th anniversary of Waterloo last year? Eh bien, mes amis, this year France gets her revenge. October 14th is the 900th anniversary of the subjugation of the Anglo-Saxons by that doughty Norman, William the Conqueror. The five departments of ancient Normandy are planning all sorts of festivities, starting in April and including a yacht race to Hastings across the Channel as well as to what should be a well-attended convention of all the descendants of the Conqueror's army...
Cracking the Cranium. The idea behind the newest games seems to be: Make them impossible, or at least interminable. Strategy games such as Diplomacy (TIME, Dec. 13, 1963) often drag on for eight hours, can devour a whole weekend. War games, notably Avalon Hill's Waterloo, Stalingrad and Gettysburg, allow a player to second-guess Napoleon, Hitler or Lee, and, if successful, reverse the course of history...