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During Nixon's final torment I often reflected on an event in the summer of 1970. On a Saturday afternoon the White House switchboard operator reached me at the hotel in Laguna Beach, Calif., that served as the press center. Would I like to drive with the President and Bebe Rebozo, his old friend, to Los Angeles? We could have dinner at Chasen's restaurant...
...separating material by subject, as we chose to do, is particularly difficult." Completed excerpts were sent by courier to Kissinger, who would then telephone Kriss with comments and clarifications. "He is an excellent text editor," says Kriss. "He is also an absolute workhorse. With help from TIME'S switchboard, he was able to find me just about anywhere, at any hour, even in the shower at 8:30 a.m." Kissinger also called several times from Massachusetts General Hospital, where he went first for tests and then, two weeks ago, for a triple coronary bypass. Says Kriss: "The very night...
...using electronic black boxes to conceal the locations from which they spoke. Yet at heart, the dealers remained kids who believed they would never be caught. The downhill slide started when Steinberg directed one operation from a Fort Lauderdale hotel room. Calls to his extension tied up the entire switchboard; a suspicious owner called the police. The gang scrambled out the windows but left behind marijuana, 7 Ibs. of cocaine (value: $180,000) and $1.2 million in cash, plus meticulous account books and records. It took police a year to trap Steinberg...
...this pastoral adagio, this memoir-nightmare? Writer Wittliff has drawn the film's setting and tone from his childhood in a small Texas town off the gulf. Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace of a journey over the Texas plains as seen...
Ronald Reagan routinely asked the White House switchboard last week to find Democratic Congressman Tom Bevill of Alabama so the legislator could be coaxed to support the President's economic program. Ever efficient, the operators found the lawmaker in New Zealand, where it was 4 a.m. The President gushed apologies for waking the Congressman at such an hour. Recalled Reagan: "I wanted to tell him that I was somebody else. It was too late. He knew...