Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatah's headquarters buildings in Amman, a hectic bustle reflects the growth of the movement. Switchboard operators bellow into makeshift World War II British field telephones, trying to make contact with branch offices in Salt or Irbid. Most communication is still by handwritten letter, carried by couriers on bicycles, in Jeeps or on foot. When a dusty Arab arrives with a tightly wadded piece of paper, Arafat scribbles an answer in the margin, then sends the courier off again. Agents arriving in little black Volkswagens dash up for conferences. A white ambulance pulls up bearing the insignia...
...virtually every city east of Denver (most of the Far West was spared the blackout), the telephone switchboards at NBC affiliate stations lit up like fireflies on grass. In Manhattan, a blitz of 10,000 angry callers blew a fuse in the network's switchboard. In sheer frustration, hundreds of other fans telephoned the New York City police, tying up its emergency number for more than three hours. In a further display of exquisite timing, NBC belatedly announced the results of the game in two news streamers, one of which chugged across the bottom of the screen just when...
Tall and lean (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), Helmsley keeps fit by frequent skiing. He often stays home in Westchester County for a day or two a week to toil over papers without interruptions. He keeps a direct phone line from home to his office switchboard, however, "so no one knows whether I'm calling him from the office...
...callers totted up by the phone company - was Stokely Carmichael, who was dialed by 64,440 Americans. In customary form, Carmichael told one listener who wondered about the impact of nonviolence on whites, "You should ask Martin Luther King that question." A white guest who stirred a big switchboard jam was New York's Mayor John Lindsay. Quizzed on the war in Viet Nam, Lindsay replied that it was "unproductive, unwanted, endless, bottomless, sideless, and its cost is unquestionably affecting the problems in our cities." Another night, White Radical Saul Alinsky, in sympathy with black callers, blasted...
...other TIME reporters and helpers already on hand. There they found ready for them, in the 1,600-sq.-ft. Jade Room of the Fontainebleau Hotel, a home away from home: a complete news bureau equipped with desks, a battery of Teletype machines, wire service tickers, and a private switchboard with direct lines to key locations in the Convention Hall...