Telephone directory. A telephone directory, also known as a telephone book, telephone address book, phone book, or the white/yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by name and address to be found. The advent of the Internet and smart phones in the 21st century greatly reduced the need for a paper phone book. Some communities,
Near the very height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, on March 5, 1966, American popular-music fans made a #1 hit out of a song called âThe Ballad Of The Green Beretsâ by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
This served as the inspiration for a John Wayne film called The Green Berets. It was parodied by the left wing English singer Billy Bragg in his The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions.. In the US, this was the biggest-selling single of 1966. It was a #1 hit for five weeks and was the #21 song of the '60s.