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NO COMMENT Call Your Mother— If You Can Ma Bell wants to talk. AT&T has devised a "Let's Talk" line that offers Bell System customers the toll-free chance to chat with company representatives....
...Somebody to help you...
...NO COMMENT A Brand New Ballgame A U.S...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Freed from such restrictions, the corporation sees "Let's Talk" as a way of explaining the steps it is taking toward what it calls "the Information Age...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Somebody to answer your questions...
...and for the Martial Coconut The official Philippines News Agency reported that Major Julio de la Gente, who specializes in finding new commercial applications for the troubled coconut industry, has successfully detonated a bomb "stronger than ordinary dynamite . . . whose charge consisted of 100 per cent residues of coconut oil...
...Please send original clippings or photographs and give name and date of publication...
...A survey taken several years ago found that two-thirds of welfare recipients in New York City lacked telephone service...
...A proposal expected to be adopted soon by the Federal Communications Commission may double the present basic telephone rate...
...Because of the many regulations and restraints the telecommunications industry in this country was forced to operate under, many technological advances were held in check...
...Joe Vogler, the Alaskan Independence Party's unsuccessful candidate for governor, urged the use of nuclear bombs to blast a path through glaciers for construction of a coastal highway from Seattle to Alaska...
...Green-Collar Crime Girl Scout officials are cracking down on troop mothers who pocket the proceeds of cookie sales...
...Reach out and call AT&T at 1-800-555-5000...
...Take the company up on its toll-free offer...
...It'll be like winning the World Series for me...
...There'll be somebody to talk to...
...Big-Brother-in-a-Box A compact electronic box called Cen-sorview costs $199, sits atop your television set, and enables you to block out "any specific show on any channel for one day—or indefinitely...
...Brooklyn resident Ellen Mayers would have much to discuss with Ma Bell if AT&T hadn't disconnected her telephone when her welfare check was late and she fell behind in paying her bill...
...Response to the service has been subdued, but that doesn't bother AT&T...
...Call us," a recent Bell System advertisement urges...
...The only way we could move ahead was to change," the ad reads...
...In New York City, it is estimated that 25 per cent of all homes in the Bronx and 41 per cent of those in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn have no telephones...
...Why not talk about all this to Ma Bell...
...military adviser in El Salvador who formerly served in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, as quoted in The New York Times: "All I want to do is win one war, that's all, just one...
...If you want access to a program you have censored, you use "your personal security code...
...Now she must come up with a $175 deposit to have the service restored...
...New Hope for the Peaceful Atom...
...Affirmative Action At Southern Methodist University, a group called the Association for White Students went out of business after a name change—to Students for Equality—failed to enhance its popularity...
...For people like Mayers, who are more interested in having a telephone at home than in the leaps and bounds of telecommunications technology, the outlook is unpromising...
...Deregulation anxiety looms large in the company's multi-million-dollar ad campaign...
...While the telephone supermonopoly ushers in its new technology, soaring rates are leaving many low-income households without telephone service, Pacific News Service reports...
...jes' Folks According to The Bottom Line, the newspaper published by Columbia University's Business School, "There are, in fact, very few ways in which corporations absolutely differ from people, if we set anatomy aside for the moment...
...According to the Wall Street Journal, Ma Bell just wants people to know she's there when needed...
Vol. 47 • January 1983 • No. 1
