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Celes King is director of the Los Angeles Rumor Control and Information Center, which serves as a switchboard for the black and Mexican minority organizations. King, a chunky brown man in his 40s, sits in a storefront office on a cheap vinyl couch. I ask him if the blacks are happy. King laughs bitterly. He points out that juvenile unemployment in the black community is 25% to 30%; adult unemployment is 12% to 15%. Transportation is a big part of the problem. Los Angeles is a horizontal city, and it's huge. Most industrial jobs are ten to 20 miles...
...MIST, Medical Information Service via Telephone, a new consultation service created last July by the Medical College of Alabama in Birmingham. Until the advent of MIST, all the woman's doctor could have done was to seek help at random. Instead, he was able to telephone a central switchboard; the operator immediately put him through to MIST's pharmacologist, whose specialized knowledge may have saved the patient's life...
What does a night watchman do? "Our hours are 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. We're here to help the boys. They forget their keys or their fuses blow. Things come up you don't know about. Every hour we check in with the switchboard. We walk around the building every now and then and then and answer the phone. At one o'clock we lock the Senior and Junior Common Rooms, the library, and the music rooms. I have to lock the Society of Fellows room on Monday night or whenever they have a party...
...yard boys and deliverymen. Particularly in Texas, Mexican Americans sometimes get less pay than others for the same work. Even the few who have some education do not escape discrimination. Chicano women find that jobs as public contacts at airline ticket counters are rarely open; they are welcome as switchboard operators out of the public eye. Mexican-American men who work in banks are assigned to the less fashionable branches. Promotions come slowly, responsibility hardly ever...
...switchboard of the nearby Hotel Formentor. The basic writing of the Travel Guide to Europe is done by Fielding and Joe Raff, who mimics his master's prose, which has been described as Rotarian baroque. Judy Raff and Robert Bone are mainly responsible for the Super-Economy Guide, and Nancy Fielding is doyenne of the Shopping Guide...