Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morrissey granted amnesty to the dozen undergraduate women who had at noon Tuesday barricaded themselves inside the communications room, seized control of the main switchboard and pledged to remain until their demands were...
...mode was elaborate indifference. Last week The Star-Spangled Banner was again the center of a brief, ludicrous controversy at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There, the director of the U.S. Olympic Invitational Track Meet announced that it would not be played at the event. Thereupon the Garden switchboard lit up like a scoreboard. After receiving "irate calls from all over the country," the meet officials set a new indoor record for backpedaling. They would be "delighted," they claimed, "to continue the custom" of anthem playing. Twenty New York councilmen suddenly put on their best red-white-and-blue...
...week long the flight announcer at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington followed his announcements with Hall to the Redskins!" In Miami, a radio station offered literally to bet the shirt off the back of anybody who wanted to take the Redskins. The switchboard was immediately flooded with thousands of calls, many long-distance from Washington...
...Report thefts to the University Police immediately. The number is 495-1212 (5-1212 from telephones on the University switchboard). From the Medical school the number...
...price boost, AT&T, under John Dulany deButts, who has been chairman since February, was slowly moving ahead again. DeButts and his aides have trimmed labor costs and made sharper projections of future needs. Productivity has also been improved in recent years by adding advanced technology like the electronic switchboard, which handles all the routine details of long-distance calls, freeing operators to help with unusual problems. Third quarter earnings increased by 20% over the same period last year, to $642 million. Since last May, AT&T's stock has risen ten points, and last week alone it added...