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Even before the Nixon obituary went on the air, ABC's switchboard lit up with protests; after the show was over, the network received several thousand phone calls and 300 telegrams, most of them objecting to the presence of Hiss. Even former President Dwight Eisenhower called James Hagerty, ABC vice president and Eisenhower's press secretary for eight years, to express "astonishment...
Young engineers set a strange contraption in the sunlight and watch it click and squirm and eerily point toward the sun. Colleagues gather to admire, their talk tangled with figures and newborn jargon. Nothing is simple at Goddard. In the corner of a control room is a small telephone switchboard attended by a bored young man. It looks as if it belonged in a flyblown small-town hotel, but it has a space-age name, SCAMA (Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement), and it is the center of the world's only global voice communication network. By flicking a switch...
Aberg attributes Ericsson's success abroad to "good products and long patience." Ericsson's laboratories are famed for their imaginative designs-among them the "thinking" switchboard (which automatically repeats a call a little later if the first try gets a busy signal) and the Ericofon, a telephone that has earpiece, mouthpiece and dial all in one unit. Ericsson's salesmen have spent as long as six years in a new country making their pitch and landing their first contract. Each year the company brings nearly 100 foreign engineers to Stockholm to train them...
...stomach the loss of freedom under Castro-for themselves as physicians, for their children as future citizens. Castro's policies have made a mockery of medicine. To head one reputable clinic, the regime nominated a janitor. In a major clinic it installed the barber as administrator, with the switchboard operator as his assistant. Says one displaced doctor: "Practice is terrible...
...than 1000 valentines poured into the London office of burly Bachelor Sir Edward Boyle, 38, who as Financial Secretary to the British Treasury bosses his nation's civil-service telephone operators. Harking back to Sir Edward's longstanding promise to try and get them a raise, the switchboard girls wrote...