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...phone rang in West Germany's embassy in Paris. When the caller identified himself as from the Soviet embassy with an urgent note to deliver to the German ambassador, the ambassador's secretary thought it was a joke and almost hung up on the spot...
From Salisbury, N.C., a typical Zilch caller recently asked for Joyce Scott at 58-1379 Birmingham, Ala. The operator calling that number was told she could reach her party at another number. She tried again and was referred again-twelve times in all. The call tied her up for 60 minutes and the circuit for 42. By last week phony Zilch calls had become a nationwide nuisance to the company. In Atlanta, Southern Bell went to court asking an injunction and $60,000 damages from 99 Georgia unionists accused of Zilch operations. "All we were doing," said a union official...
...first caller is always portly, poised General Chang Chun, secretary-general of his 240-man secretariat, and a friend of 50 years. The previous secretary, Wang Shih-chieh, was fired by the Generalissimo in a fit of temper two years ago-some say for saying no too sharply and too often, some say because the Generalissimo thought he was hiding things from him. Chang avoids this accusation by passing along any problem that might conceivably interest his unpredictable boss...
Phone Books. After the phone call, Reston hustled to "an office," there got the record from his caller. Reston refused to say who he was. but newsmen guessed Reston's source was someone in the State Department itself. He got the two-volume. 834-page report under three conditions : 1) the Times would publish the full conference record. 2) the books were to be kept handy so that they could be returned in 15 minutes, and 3) they were not to be taken apart. Thus the books could not be sent to the Times's New York office...
...Serge said he was tired and showed Estelle to the door. He was not too tired, however, to call Pat again at 2:30 a.m. and ask her to come over. But she was really too tired, and hung up. Sometime during the next three hours Serge received another caller-his murderer...