Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next stop is a modern skyscraper across from Rockefeller Center. The 15th floor of the building houses the chairman of the Board of NL Industries, Ray Adam. In contrast to the massive security at the AT&T building, a single receptionist guards a wide hallway leading to the plush, carpeted depths of the office. Once I get inside, Adam immediately arrives to greet me, relaxed and smiling. Where deButts lectures, Adam chats; he calls me by my first name repeatedly, and in spite of myself, I am disarmed...
...There are also specialized commodity trading firms like Marc Rich & Co. Such firms like to keep their dealings-and those of their clients-top secret. At Rich's Park Avenue offices in Manhattan, backroom telephone trading operations are conducted behind locked doors that are electronically controlled by a receptionist at the front desk. Queries to most U.S. trading offices from potential new buyers or sellers are generally met with a surprised "How did you get our name...
...Jerry Velona, there are two to see you," the receptionist said, dressed in a polyester suit. He was sitting behind a bulbous steel microphone, the type that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...
...door departing first. As some people of both sexes are still uncomfortable with such uncourtly procedures, a man may put them at their ease by making a suggestive remark about the woman 's figure. c) All passengers tumble out at once, landing in a heap before the eighth-floor receptionist...
...Rather than replace McKinney, we're reviewing the operation of the whole graduate school," he said. "Probably the only person who isn't moving is the receptionist," he added...