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...Venice Biennale is the longest-running art festival in the world. It has too many shows, too many egos clogging the Grand Canal and not enough people on the switchboard. Even when it is bad it is still good because it is held in Venice--an advantage that few other cultural shindigs can claim. The 42nd Biennale, which opened last week, is the largest ever, featuring work from an unprecedented 41 nations. It divides into two main sections: the national pavilions and a set of shows arranged around a given theme. This year the theme is relations between...
...Keith Rogers, 21, was convicted of robbery in 1982 and the following year began serving a three-year sentence at the Ventura School in Camarillo, Calif., a correctional institution for youthful offenders. In February he was one of 24 inmates who began taking phone reservations for TWA through a switchboard hooked up to three trailers at Ventura. Says Rogers: "This opportunity makes my future a little bit brighter. It gives me an outlet so I don't have to get back into the same bad habits once...
When a button marked "HARV" flashes on the telephone switchboard in almost 50 investment banking firms on Wall Street, stock traders know that the nation's richest university wants to do some business. At Harvard Management Company (HMC) in Boston's financial district, one of the four traders simply places a call on one of the 90 direct lines to the money moguls to ask, "What's your market in stock X, Y, or Z?" Through such second-long transactions, Harvard traders shuffle around an average of $4 million each day. In the last three months, under HMC's care...
ENIAC was the technological wonder of its day. Programming the machine could take as long as two days as "coders" armed with detailed instructions fanned out among the panels, setting dials and plugging in patch cords in an arrangement that resembled an old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Data were fed into ENIAC in the form of IBM punch cards; a million cards were required for the monster's first assignment, a top-secret numerical simulation for the still untested hydrogen bomb. Every time a tube burned out, which happened twice a day at the start, a technician had to rummage among...
...President promised not to raise "golf balls" in anybody's throat, but did. Nancy cast her eyes down. Meese, the new Attorney General, beamed at everybody. White House switchboard operators, advancemen and journalists, all acknowledging some admiration of the troika era, nibbled shrimps and watched the shadows along the White House lengthen and history move...