Word: switchboards
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...when her father put in a stint in Kuala Lumpur. After finishing high school, Toni went to work as a payroll clerk for London's Peak Engineering Co. But, as one company official tactfully explained, "her calculations were rather erratic," and she ended up on the telephone switchboard...
Telephones jangled, the switchboard blinked, and drifts of incoming mail accumulated on the desks. Workmen pushed office furniture around the corridors. The scene, in a suite of offices in Washington's International Cooperation Administration Building, was chaotic. Earlier in the week, President Kennedy had announced the formation of his Peace Corps of volunteer workers in underdeveloped countries (TIME, Feb. 24), and the half-organized headquarters was engulfed with requests for information, applications from would-be recruits. In other parts of the capital, the story was the same: Congressmen reported a deluge of mail; the White House was hard pressed...
...courtesy to a former prospective occupant, the White House switchboard has been handling any calls for Richard Nixon that come to NA 8-1414. Kennedy Administration telephone operators would ring Nixon's unlisted number, pass along the message, or connect the caller if the family approved. The service is now at an end. Nixon has changed his telephone number without telling the White House where he can be reached...
...election night an impatient Democrat picked up a telephone and called Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, hoping to persuade the Vice President of the U.S. to concede. Soon he was screaming at a switchboard operator who refused to put him through: "But this is Frank Sinatra...
Last week Pittsburgh was plastered with signs reading "Beat 'Em, Bucs," switchboard operators at grimy Forbes Field were greeting callers with "First-place Pirates!" and the solid old baseball town that had waited patiently for a winner since 1927 was running a virulent case of pennant fever. But Murtaugh just kept his Pirates playing percentage baseball, told newsmen to find stirring quotes elsewhere ("I'm no good at answering questions"), and declined to say a single word about the pennant. One frustrated reporter finally asked Murtaugh if he would admit Easter would fall on Sunday next year...