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According to the White House switchboard, calls ran 6 to 1 in the President's favor. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, who cheerlessly supported the President, took a different reading. Telegrams to his office were 20 to 1 against the Cambodian expedition...
University police, as well as units from the Cambridge police and fire departments, yesterday searched the ten-story building after an anonymous caller warned that a bomb would go off within a half-hour. The call was immediately reported to University police by the personnel office switchboard, which received...
...accounting), the poor, the greedy, the curious and the con men swarmed to his house in Scarsdale, N.Y., to stand in the 10° cold, waiting for handouts. The telephone company finally had to give him a new, unlisted phone number; incoming calls were paralyzing the local switchboard. In Manhattan, Brody rented an office on Broadway as a clearinghouse for his largesse. Ed Sullivan introduced him on television as "the wonderfully generous Michael James Brody," and the lad loosely strummed his guitar and sang a Bob Dylan song...
Despite his cool relationship with Congress, Richard Nixon offset his switchboard's tactlessness by going to the Hill for lunch on the final day. He gave the key leaders cuff links bearing the Presidential seal plus pearl-ringed brooches for their wives. He offered general thanks, said nothing of his disappointments; his warm mood conveyed the impression that he did not intend to veto any major bills. It was the kind of rapport-building gesture that politicians of both parties had wanted him to make months earlier, though it is questionable whether gestures would have helped improve the final...
Police cleared Holyoke Center yesterday morning for two hours after an anonymous male caller told the switchboard operator that a bomb would go off in the building...