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Thu Apr 29 07:03:27 1982
Monopoly
There are in this country two very

large monopolies. The larger of the

two has the following record: The

Vietnam War, Watergate, double-

digit inflation, fuel and energy

shortages, bankrupt airlines and

the 20-cent letter. The second is

responsible for such things as the

transistor, the solar cell, lasers,

synthetic crystals, high fidelity

stereo recording, sound motion

pictures, radio astronomy, negative

feedback, magnetic tape, magnetic

"bubbles", electronic swithching

systems, microwave radio and TV

relay systems, information theory,

the first electrical digital computer,

and the first communications

satellite. Guess which one is now

going to tell the other how to run

the telephone business? I can

hardly wait for the results.