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Voracious Appetites. One reason for the surge in switches is that corporations are growing bigger and faster than ever before. International Telephone & Telegraph has been expanding so rapidly that it has not had time to develop enough of its own executives. Under Chairman Harold Geneen, himself hired away from Raytheon, ITT has taken on some 500 men from other firms in the past eight years. Besides creating voracious appetites for instant manpower, corporate bigness tends to dilute employee loyalty, with the result that executives are more willing to listen to new job offers. What makes them even more susceptible...
Bold Gamble. Though fewer than a score of black guerrillas were engaged in the battle, the slum telegraph swiftly rapped out reports, igniting a full-scale riot. Looters and arsonists rampaged through a six-square-mile area, as well as in nearby Hough, which suffered a five-day riot in 1966. Mayor Carl Stokes, who as the Negro candidate for the office last year inspired the slogan "Cool Cleveland for Carl," hoped that he might again stave off trouble. He was reluctantly forced to call on Ohio Governor James Rhodes for help. Within twelve hours, 2,700 National Guardsmen were...
...Rock Pile. The full extent of their fury makes Watts look like a street squabble. The mobs were so huge that they sometimes completely jammed the broadest streets. They tore down telegraph poles and burly Irish women wielding crowbars tore up the tracks of the street railways. At one point, 50 soldiers formed a double line with fixed bayonets and tried to halt a mob marching on Third Avenue. They fired a volley into the crowd before they were overrun and took to their heels. One soldier tried to escape by scrambling up a rock pile near 42nd Street...
Despite the 78 day-old New England Telephone and Telegraph strike, Summer School students living in Harvard dormatories are getting telephones installed...
...Western Union Telegraph...