Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touched by Berlin's sorrow without fully sharing it. Heinrich Böll, by contrast, knows the inwardness of his people's sorrow-and only the inwardness. In Acquainted with the Night, Author Böll plucks three days from the life of Fred Bogner, a switchboard operator who has been drifting through the ruins of the Ruhr, drinking and playing pinball ever since he returned from the Russian front...
...last fortnight, the newspapers and beer bottles-and the skill of the delivery team-were put to a greater test than usual. A call came in to the center's switchboard asking for a doctor to attend a Puerto Rican woman a half-hour's drive away. Quickly, a delivery crew assembled: Spanish-born Dr. Esteban Martin Martin. University of Wisconsin Medical Student Marvin Hinke and two visiting nurses. They picked up their black bags and set out in Dr. Martin's car. When it broke down (Martin's diagnosis: "Vascular ailment of the gas line...
...hard pressed to keep pace with demand. Almost anything new catches on instantly. Three months ago, Denver's Rocky Mountain News started a do-it-yourself column, In one of its first articles it explained how to build an aluminum carport. By noon the next day, the News switchboard had received 200 calls; seven local firms immediately went into the business with carport kits, and so far have sold...
...With 29 manufacturing companies scattered through 20 nations, Behn was still not satisfied. Since World War II he has put I.T. & T. in the consumer-goods business, now turns out such items as Capehart-Farnsworth radio & TV sets and Coolerator refrigerators, in addition to a broad range of microwave, switchboard and other communications equipment. But in Behn's empire all was not well. Last week Behn discreetly announced that he was turning over the operating reins to Major General William H. Harrison, president since 1948, though Behn would remain as chairman...
...Jagger and Nina Foch-all appear in this adaptation of Cameron Hawley's bestselling novel about big businessmen locked in a grim struggle for power. And when all the stars together set up a fiercely competitive twinkle for attention, the moviegoer is apt to feel somewhat like a switchboard operator with ten calls blinking at once...