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Until now, Bell has been blocked from moving full force into the lucrative new market of data communications, in which information is transferred directly from one computer to another, thereby eliminating, among other things, the need for companies to shuffle bulky reels of electronic tape back and forth between offices by mail or messenger service. But in April the Federal Communications Commission ruled that the restriction was stifling the growth of the entire communications industry. Thus the FCC declared that the company could start offering just about any sort of computer-based telephone service it wished...
Warned that Allen was nearing, Texans from Brownsville to Galveston frantically boarded up their homes and shops and 200,000 people fled coastal areas. Hardware stores sold out of batteries, candles, masking tape and flashlights. Canned goods and bottled water disappeared from grocery shelves. Hotels inland were booked to capacity...
...allegations on television in a live telephone interview from Washington. The next day every newspaper headlined the charges, which the government denied with increasing firmness and wrath. Achituv himself gave four interviews, unprecedented for a security chief, including one on television in which the cameras focused on a tape recorder emitting his voice. (Israeli censorship law forbids the chiefs name or photograph to be published.) Achituv flatly denied that he had encountered interference in his investigation. His resignation, he said, had been a routine request to step down at the end of the year. What is more, he added...
...grand way of picking his nose, scratching himself and eating food off other people's plates. When the Pope had difficulty opening a present that Johnson handed him, L.B.J. whipped a jackknife from his pocket and cut the string. He hated knots, especially when tied with red tape. In his impatience to get things done, he browbeat and literally manhandled associates. Hubert Humphrey recalled having been kicked in the shins affectionately but painfully. The Texas hill-country rancher would prod men as well as cattle. Yet, said Humphrey, "many people looked upon him as a heavyhanded man. That...
This Richard is not only fond of song but also of instrumental music. In one amusing scene, he insists on having a string quartet brought in to play the scherzo from Beethoven's Op. 131; we hear the music on tape, but the musicians use real bows to play on imaginary instruments. Elsewhere, Richard will not allow discourse to proceed until a keyboard piece has concluded, or until a trio of dancers has finished its ballet...