61.   At the other end of the line, a plain old telephone rings.

62.   Bobby Valentine was relaxing in his office at Shea Stadium on Sunday when the telephone rang.

63.   A few days later, in the corner office of the White House chief of staff, Leon Panetta, the telephone rang.

64.   A minute or two later, the telephone rang.

65.   A telephone rang at Tulane yesterday, informing coaches that Ennis defensive back Quentin Brown had signed a letter of intent to play college football there.

66.   About a year ago he was sitting quietly in his home in Henley-on-Thames when the telephone rang.

67.   About two months ago, Bernard Ebbers, the chairman of Worldcom Inc., was at home near Jackson, Miss., when the telephone rang.

68.   All around him, telephones rang and computer screens spat out information.

69.   Buchanan has based his campaign on the kind of hot-button issues that make talk-radio telephones ring.

70.   Days of tension melted away for Tilda Young when the telephone rang this morning.