The telephone companies did not escape the social unrest and problems of society of the 1960s.
One problem was anonymous obscene calls. Both Bell Telephone and General Telephone ran full page ads in LIFE magazine about them and what they were doing about it:
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Another problem was pay phone vandalism. Again, both Bell and GTE ran full page ads in LIFE discussing the problem:
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