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...full gear. In 48 rooms on three floors of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, scores of eager workers performed their appointed tasks-from drafting speeches to ordering cookie and fruit between-meals snacks for the candidate. A complex communications network had been in stalled-including a 15-circuit phone switchboard, and a special "hot line" system linking hotel headquarters to the Cow Palace convention floor and to two communications trailers parked outside. Code words were used in tele phone conversations to confuse possible eavesdroppers, and the whole headquarters area had been combed for electronic bugs that Goldwater gumshoes might have concealed...
Radcliffe has been called many things in its 89-year history, but now it can no loinger be called at all. The decision to disband the 'Cliffe's switchboard and integrate the women's college into the Harvard phone system, has finally made the 'Cliffe in theory, what it has long been in fact--an extension of Harvard...
Every Friday at sundown, the telephone operators at Tel Aviv's sleekly modern Hotel Deborah close down the switchboard. Guests at writing desks in the lobby put away pens and snuff out cigarettes. Desk clerks lock up the cash register. For the Orthodox Jew, all servile work is forbidden on the Sabbath -and the rule is strictly observed at the Deborah, the world's largest strictly kosher hotel...
...afternoon last week, an 18-year-old switchboard girl named Olga Romero hurtled naked and screaming down the stairs of a building on busy East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx. In the vestibule, in plain sight of the street (the door was open), she lay screaming and bleeding, while a man struggled to drag her upstairs again. "Help me!" she cried again and again. "He raped me." Heads popped out of offices along the hallway, and a crowd of about 40 gathered outside to watch. No one made any move on her behalf. No one called the police...
...Minute Rescue. Some cities are making progress. Chicago police have their own switchboard (POlice 5-1313) and a communications center where three-man teams are responsible for each of the city's eight zones. Calls automatically go to the right team, seated before illuminated zone maps that pinpoint the position of all radio cars. Two men receive and record the details on IBM cards; the third simultaneously assigns a car. The whole process takes about 15 seconds...