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...segregation in segregated Virginia: Negro & white personnel use the same rest rooms and eat in the same dining rooms. Its teeming workers communicate with each other through 2,100 intercoms, 15 miles of pneumatic tubes, and the world's largest private branch telephone exchange. The Pentagon switchboard, Liberty 5-6700, plugs in 40,000 telephones and is growing at the rate of 200 phones a week. Every military man working in Washington (inside the Pentagon and out) is on the exchange. The Defense phone bill: $4,000,000 a year...
During MacArthur's five days of retreat in Manhattan, coveys of cops, MPs and hotel dicks turned both press and public aside. Special switchboard arrangements diverted almost all of his 3,000-odd daily telephone calls. His zealous military secretary, Major General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, carried his word to Manhattan's clamoring reporters...
...train and rode up to the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md. There, wearing a plastic raincoat against a fine driving rain, he stood bareheaded as guns boomed his 21-gun salute, splashed through puddles to inspect the guard, maneuvered a radio-controlled tank by a switchboard placed in his hand, and watched the U.S. Army show off its newest weapons. Then he hurried back to Washington to keep a date: a family dinner to celebrate daughter Margaret's 27th birthday...
...deserted. The staff had fled during the day, and the building had the queerly disturbing air of a ghost ship. There were two half-filled teacups on the room clerk's desk, two heavily tinseled Christmas trees in the lobby, and exactly four lights burning on the telephone switchboard...
...Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane," it said. "Banking and Finance . . . . Job opportunities available." Nothing wrong with that business, thought Vag. He could keep his striped ties. He turned a few pages "International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. . . . A world-wide Electronics and Communication Enterprise." Good firm, that. Vag plugged into his switchboard and said "Check," quietly but clearly. "Ford Motor Company." Vag stood modestly behind a stamping machine and watched them lower the engine into the rear of the car. "Time Incorporated." Tough, quick-witted Vag pecked at his typewriter as the Prime Minister lay dying in the next room. This...