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...even more useful inward operator was the one in Mexico City who connected them with numbers all over the world, including that of the president of Mexico. At the Presidential Palace however, someone stated that the President was not available...
They discovered one inward operator in Kleena Kleene. B.C., who could (and would) get them through to any phone in the United States...
They were dialing numbers at random from a Marblehead apartment to get the wailing "wrong number" tone, which they were trying to record on tape, when they found that they had contacted an "inward operator" in Boston. The inward operator, whose job it is to assist other operators in completing long distance calls, had no way of knowing from where they were calling and, apparently assuming they were telephone company officials or repairmen, connected them with any Boston number they desired...
...Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved rights-of-way using continuously welded track...
During his 20s, Waugh's comedy was vividly physical; in his 30s, it grew rapidly more metaphysical. In A Handful of Dust, for example, he turns entirely inward and laughs at himself. He personifies himself as a hero so taken with the past that he cannot cope with the present, and then witheringly satirizes his character and his art in the famous climax-a passage in which the hero realizes in horror the futility to which his passion for the past has condemned him. He must spend the rest of his life in a jungle clearing, reading Dickens over...