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...storefront. Open 24 hours a day. With switchboard-hotline. People available, willing to talk. A lot of referrals, both by phone and in person. Where to look for birth control pills, abortions, draft counseling, VD tests, pregnancy tests. For those with chronic ailments, Cambridgeport, the free medical clinic across the street...
...managers. But shouts of "Kathy, Kathy!" were always in the air as students looked to her for guidance. She usually went braless and barefoot, her brown shoulder-length hair falling onto an orange smock. In Kathy's Back Bay apartment, police said, they found a field telephone switchboard, three rifles, a carbine, a pistol and a shotgun, along with an arsenal of ammunition. At least one item, the switchboard, was identified as belonging to the looted armory...
...just another Friday morning in the handsome executive offices of a large East Chicago aluminum company. Sharon, the receptionist, glanced up from her switchboard to see "a nice-looking man, about 35, dressed in slacks, a lightweight jacket and sports shirt." He was carrying a bucket-but then, as Sharon explained, "people come in all the time with samples to analyze...
...such "place" is called Project Place, and it's for runaways and street people who don't have any other one. They operate a 24-hour 7-day-a-week emergency switchboard, and a referral service to get kids shrinks and jobs and bail, and all the other things kids tend to need. They also have a crash pad and a runaway house and a drug education program for high-schools...
...result, brokers are in a depression of their own. Relatively light trading volume and sagging prices have cut into their commission income. "Our switchboard operator is making more money than we are," says Joe Griffith, a Dallas broker. Bache & Co. recently laid off about 500 employees, and the American Stock Exchange dropped 100. Two major firms, McDonnell & Co. and Gregory & Sons, have closed their doors; several others are reported to be in trouble because of insufficient capital. A number of them may be forced into shotgun mergers. The New York Stock Exchange last week began steps to increase the trust...