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...LONELY CONQUEROR, by Willi Heinrich (379 pp.; Dial; $4.95). British Critic Cyril Connolly once complained of the novelists who "can only sling a few traits on to the characters they are depicting and then hold them there. 'You can't miss So-and:So,' they explain, 'he stammers and now look, here he comes−;"What's your name?" "S-s-s-so- and-s-s-s-s-so" ' ' The novel of racial misalliance is often given to such trait slinging, and The Lonely Conqueror is no exception. The hero, Sergeant John Baako...
Bavarians are a clannish lot, devoted to their native soil. One Bavarian member of the federal Bundestag, Socialist Waldemar von Knoringen, became so despondent in Bonn - 265 miles from home - that he would dial long-distance just to hear the operator's tape-recorded voice say "Munich, Munich, Munich...
...making all calls, wait for the dial tone, a steady humming sound, before starting to dial. Don't try to dial from memory. Keep an eye on the number being called in the directory or write it down where you can see it while dialing...
Remember, you have to dial seven times, all numbers or combinations of two letters and five numbers, on all local area calls and eight times (don't forget that initial "1") on all others in the state and 11 times on out of state calls...
...success abroad to "good products and long patience." Ericsson's laboratories are famed for their imaginative designs-among them the "thinking" switchboard (which automatically repeats a call a little later if the first try gets a busy signal) and the Ericofon, a telephone that has earpiece, mouthpiece and dial all in one unit. Ericsson's salesmen have spent as long as six years in a new country making their pitch and landing their first contract. Each year the company brings nearly 100 foreign engineers to Stockholm to train them in the use of Ericsson equipment...