Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sidewalks of Harvard Square rival those of Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue as a parade ground for grubby guerrilla fashion styles. The whole scene is summed up by a sign in the Harvard Coop that sternly warns people not to go barefoot on the escalator (it can be a painful way to pare the toenails). For many undergraduates, alienation is more than a matter of drugs, dirty clothes and long hair. Rather than live within the gilded confines of Harvard's residential houses along the Charles River, a few hundred students have moved into nearby slum tenements like...
...Romnes, Chairman, American Telephone & Telegraph...
...most famous multibillion-dollar companies is harassed by a ten-cent problem. Too many of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s pay phones are out of commission, having been pulled, kicked or picked apart by vandals and thieves. Last year A.T. & T. lost $3,000,000 to them and spent another $10 million repairing and replacing many of its 1,200,000 pay phones. That amounted to less than one-tenth of 1% of Mother Bell's revenues. The far greater cost is the incalculable loss of esteem in the eyes of people who wonder why they cannot make...
...about 71% over the past year. A man who got a 25-year, $20,000 FHA mortage a year ago would have to make monthly payments of $135; if he signed a similar mortgage now, he would commonly have to pay $144. Last week a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph issued a Triple-A bond with a 7% interest rate, but found few takers even at that rich yield. New York City has chosen to postpone some bond offerings altogether rather than pay so much for money. The nation's banks are expected to increase their loans by only...
...neighbors. We know them only slightly, and we don't bother them." Key Biscayners are used to notables. Among residents are Sportscaster Red Barber, Aircraft Pioneer Grover Loening, N.Y. Yankee Official Larry MacPhail, Samuel C. Johnson, president of Johnson's Wax, Jack Paar and International Telephone and Telegraph President Harold S. Geneen. No longer on the scene is Candy Mossier, acquitted in 1966 of the murder of her wealthy husband Jacques. For the most part, residents seem quietly pleased that Nixon has joined their group, but there are a few minority opinions. Told of the Nixon purchases...