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Noindex doesn't mean the page is invisible to Google, it just means it won't show up in search results. So no one "disappears."

The cnn link is on this page: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/opinion/david-love-medgar-evers-trayvon-martin-survivors/index.htm

In this paragraph: Meanwhile, not unlike Myrlie Evers-Williams, Sybrina Fulton found her calling through grief nearly 50 years later.

Google uses meta descriptions as suggestions and then shows whatever it thinks is most useful to the searcher.

So if Google is not showing the phone numbers, it's because Google doesn't think they best answer the intent of the search, not because they are "spam".

And I agree with EGOL, don't give away all your information in the SERPs, get people to click for it.