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...Chiefs of Staff, picked up a direct line to the War Room at the Pearl Harbor headquarters of Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the supreme U.S. commander in the Pacific (TIME cover, Aug. 14). Sharp was discussing the attack with his aides when the amber light on his dialless gold telephone flashed on. Wheeler wanted to make sure that the Seventh Fleet was ready. Sharp assured him that...
...windowless war room on the third deck of his hilltop headquarters overlooking the white sands of the Oahu coast. He slipped into his green leather chair at the center of a U-shaped table, opposite a wall on which illuminated status reports could be flashed, and picked up a dialless gold telephone at his left. On the Stateside end of the circuit was Robert McNamara. Sharp seldom left that room during the next 22 hours. He made about 100 calls to Washington, even more than that to his subordinate Pacific commanders of the Air Force, Army and Navy...
...town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with a message: "Entered plant O.K. Don't worry...
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