Word: intercom
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...politicos and adventurers (mostly Americans) eager to get to China, the box office is the top two floors of Ottawa's modern twelve-story Juliana apartments, where the 20-man Chinese embassy staff lives and works. Most visa-seeking visitors are lucky if they can get past the intercom in the foyer, where they are told by a polite English-speaking voice to write directly to the Chinese foreign ministry in Peking. Among those who have approached the Juliana embassy for those coveted tickets to China: Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Adlai Stevenson III and Teddy...
...installed in Los Angeles' Surety National Bank, among others, it seems straight out of 1984. Customers enter the lobby and go up to television screens that show only the faces of tellers, who are safely locked away on the second floor. All transactions are conducted through an intercom and pneumatic tubes. One unit with tube attachments costs from $11,000 to $23,000. Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank is installing an expensive computer-controlled alarm network that connects all its branches with the central office and transmits different signals for a burglary or a holdup. Some bankers who want...
...Tuesday afternoon, a CFIA librarian saw two suspicious-looking girls. After they left, she found a small metal box which she thought might have contained a bomb. Through the intercom, she tried to phone CFIA secretary Lawrence S. Finkelstein. The message passed through three secretaries and the "small metal box" part of the message never reached...
...York-it sat beside him in a first-class Ozark Air Lines seat. At first the package was too bulky to get the seat belt around, so Gallo was obliged to unwrap it. That caused quite a stir on the plane. "The hostesses came on the intercom," says Gallo, "and announced that they were pleased to have Myra Breckinridge on the flight with them today...
WHEN my American Airlines flight touched down in Washington last Saturday morning the intercom snapped on and the stewardess announced in a voice straining to retain its routine cool, "Whatever your purpose in coming to Washington we hope you will have a pleasant day. On behalf of myself and the crew...