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...major offensive in the U.S. telecommunications and office-equipment markets. The company has long been a major supplier of sophisticated telecommunications gear in Western Europe but was effectively shut out of the American market until last year's breakup of AT&T. Now ITT hopes to sell an advanced switchboard, known as System 12, to some of the new regional Bell companies. However, it faces formidable competition from several firms, including AT&T, GTE and Northern Telecom. In the office-equipment field, ITT has come out with a personal computer, but it is an undistinguished entry that has not done...
...Berlin, Paris and Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above all, for the kind of blurting psychic truth under pressure that no villager could know...
...these students has been a surprise to the college. Ada Administrator Eleanor Rothman recalls that when the program was first proposed, the faculty expected to receive genteel inquiries from well-to-do women yearning to complete their degrees. Instead, applications poured in from clerks, secretaries, farmers, nurses and switchboard operators. One woman, who worked as an apple picker, wrote in her application: "I am ready to go to school because I need to." Another Ada, Barbara Rosenheck, 46, the widowed mother of four, now spending part of the week in a Smith dormitory, feels as if she is living "with...
Jackie Jung, Bell Service public relations manager, said the computer damage occurred at 3:30 p.m. and was repaired within six minutes After the repair, however, a glut of outgoing phone calls overloaded the computer's switchboard and prevented the phone company from restoring full service for an hour and a half...
...black wide receiver for the Redskins, as "that little monkey." Cosell's remark "was a slip that reflected a thought," said an incensed Lowery. Cosell, who at first denied the comment, was less abject than adenoidal, even though his remark had lit up the network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett and noted, accurately, that some of his best friends were black, including Muhammad Ali, Willie Stargell and Sugar Ray Leonard. "I was bragging on him [Garrett] with affection," spouted the righteous sportscaster, adding, "My record...