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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 14:02:00 EDT
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The Honorable Mr. Wilfred Whitney Gzortenblatz
House of Representatives Office Building
Washington, DC     02590-4444

Dear Congressman Gzortenblatz:

I really appreciate all you have done in your twenty year campaign to
break up the stangling monopoly on American communications.  At the
beginning no one understood this threat, but now we all know exactly
what you've worked so hard for.  I, personally, was quite offended that
a company with a nationwide monopoly on an essential commodity wanted
to diversify and sell computers.  What on earth do computers have to
do with telephones anyways?

I am writing to warn you that your work is not finished.  An important
detail has been overlooked, right under our noses.  Or perhaps I should
say right under our feet.  I'm talking about something the old monopoly
has planted in the middle of every city and town in our nation, just waiting
for a chance to do God only knows what.

I'm talking about manhole covers.  Thousands, maybe millions of manhole
covers, each one cast with expressions like "Bell System" or "AT&T".

Clearly these have to go.

Eliminating these manhole covers will be good for the nation, supressing the
threat of corporate resurgence.  It will be good for our cities, putting
shiny new manhole covers in the streets of America.  It will be good for
the American iron industry, a good, respectable industry where men know 
what's going on and you can put your hands on the product when it's delivered.
It will be good for your congressional district, where I and several hundred
of the best foundry workers anywhere are out of work.  It will be the cap
of your stellar career in politics, as you put the finishing touches
on the breakup.  Finally, it will insure that all those new phone companies
out there won't make too many profits.

Thank you for your time.  I have always and will always vote for you,
although my wife has sometimes made mistakes.

Sincerely,



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Keith
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P.S.  A week or so ago, Jim Butterfield was kind enough to point out that ROM
wasn't built in a day.