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Shultz's staff in Wads-worth House acts as a "switchboard," as he puts it, in coordinating alumni activities, but the core of the alumni organization is the clubs. There are about 90 active clubs throughout the country, most of them very different from the Boston and New York Harvard Clubs, the only two with their own real estate. The others are more loosely structured and meet only a few times a year, usually in a rented hall or someone's house...
...frightened every time a policeman pulls in but the body rush quickly subsides when he says "I'll be needing a room about 1 a.m."?! Our switchboard is an antique which means that I have to put through all of the calls. The same policeman calls and says "Will you git this number fer me--and if a man answers--hang...
...cousin. Most conspicuous is pop-rock's king of instruments, the electric guitar. Ten years ago, from Engineering Physicist Robert Moog, came the Moog synthesizer, which first produced music through electricity alone. A nuclear-age superorgan, it looks like the offspring of a piano and a telephone switchboard...
...America's tribes-within-the-tribe is not that they are too idiosyncratic but that they are not idiosyncratic enough. "Mobsters and bishops" share the same "heavy disingenuousness." Labor threatens to form an "Establishment troika with business and government." Fiery young Mafiosi will be left to "man the switchboard and analyze the computer, and be snuffed out at last by a missing credit card." Everything is losing its edge, dissolving into "uni-state." Poor Homo Americanus, looking for clues to himself in the codes of his sub-tribes, is getting less and less help...
...Report thefts to the University Police immediately. The number is 495-1212 (5-1212 from telephones on the University switchboard...