Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME Correspondent Thomas Dozier and Yakov Malik, Soviet delegate to the United Nations, occupied adjoining chairs recently in London's Savoy Hotel barber shop. Part way through their joint shearing Dozier heard Comrade Malik summon a page boy, to whom he gave half a crown and instructions to get him a copy of TIME. When the boy -returned with a copy, Malik took it, looked at the cover and gruffed: "This is not it; this is last week's issue; I've read that one. Don't they have a new TIME up there...
Lehman headquarters does more than answer KI 7-7600 calls. Those small red lamps attached to various buildings around the College are also part of the telephone system. These, when lit, summon University policemen; near each light is a telephone connected like the light, directly with the switchboard. Even when there is no particular trouble brewing, and there usually isn't, the policeman must call in once every hour during the day, and every half-hour from midnight to dawn. When there is a really big disturbance, like last fall's Square riot, the switchboard becomes an intelligence center, directing...