At one time, looking at a person's Rolodex would give you a glimpse at who (or what) was important to the owner at any given time. (I suppose the same might be true for contact lists in our phones.)
Old Mole -- an underground newspaper of the Radical Left that published from 1968 to 1970-71 in Cambridge, Massachusetts -- ran this list of numbers for its readers to add to their Rolodexes.
I believe the AFSC refers to the American Friends Service Committee, a venerable social justice organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.
Project Place was founded in 1967 to address homelessness. It is still in business.
The name Old Mole is taken from a Marxian quote: "We recognize our old friend, our old mole, who knows so well how to work underground, to appear: the revolution."
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