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...switchboard breaks down, and rumors...
...benefit for human rights activists: international direct-dial telephone lines that vastly increased the flow of unauthorized information in and out of the Soviet Union. Installed for the benefit of the thousands of journalists, athletes and spectators who flocked to Moscow in July 1980, the sophisticated French-built electronic switchboard enabled Soviet citizens to keep in closer touch with friends and family members in Western Europe...
Under local laws, the Panamanian firms could be started with as little as $10,000 in capital, but could be used to borrow far greater sums on world financial markets. Calvi launched at least a dozen such "shell" companies in Panama, listing employees of his Bahamas bank, including the switchboard operator, as directors and officers...
...some, and quietly sold for $50,000 the stock in the business he had bought for $2,500 in 1951. Elden: who had strung Army field wire at $14 a mile to add to the 100 or so subscribers he began with. Elden: who had tinkered with one secondhand switchboard after another-Western Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Northern Electric. Elden: who had pulled himself out of bed to man the phones more midnights than he cares to remember, wakened by a night-alarm gong from the switchboard and a kick or two from his wife Barbara, who with her daughter Susan...
...Lumber Yard, where they planed on all four sides, true and square, and a cannery where a boy could pick up a damaged tin of creamed corn for a free lunch on his way to a day of fishing. After so much loss, why should a crank-telephone switchboard in the back room of his home lay claim to immortality...