Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, New York is better off than many other cities. Houston's emergency calls go through an all-service city switchboard, and police may be delayed by as much as two hours. In Los Angeles County's 75 incorporated cities, 27 of them policed by the county sheriff and 48 by local forces, the right number to call is often a mystery to the householder with a prowler hacking at his back door. Best advice: dial the operator and pray that she is not already swamped with other calls...
...Minute Rescue. Some cities are making progress. Chicago police have their own switchboard (POlice 5-1313) and a communications center where three-man teams are responsible for each of the city's eight zones. Calls automatically go to the right team, seated before illuminated zone maps that pinpoint the position of all radio cars. Two men receive and record the details on IBM cards; the third simultaneously assigns a car. The whole process takes about 15 seconds...
Carroll Baker lies on a bed on a Hollywood Carpetbaggers set, dressed only in a bedspread, and says good morning to the film crew as if she were a switchboard operator in an office. The TV crew hung around the Carpetbaggers set for two weeks, and the wait paid off even more: they were there and shooting when a chandelrer on which Carroll Baker was swinging pulled out of the ceiling and crashed to the floor. A battling horde of Romans and Persians, practicing in Spain's Guadarra-mas for Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman...
...something frivolously feminine. They don't know Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous. Daughter of a barber in Skowhegan, Margaret Madeline Chase never went to college, clerked in a dime store for 100 an hour, worked on a newspaper, taught school, filled in as a night switchboard operator for the phone company. Her husband Clyde, Skow-hegan's first Republican selectman, won 48 straight elections in his lifetime, got elected to Congress in 1936. He died four years later, and Maggie took his place, winning a crashing 25,000-vote victory in the 1940 election...
There are Quentin-Miller's brother and father, and his mother, whose death he could not mourn. There are Quentin's two wives, both of whom finally find him "cold and remote." The first, Louise, is Miller's first wife, Mary Grace Slattery. The second is Maggie, a switchboard operator who becomes a celebrated performer only to succumb to sexual obsessions, hysteria, drink, and fatal sleeping-pills--Marilyn Monroe, of course. Quentin's third big love is Holga, an archaeologist from Salzburg who helps Quentin to confront the Nazis' genocide camps (twice she states, "No-one they [the Nazis] didn...