Word: switchboard
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...trout off a river dock, Carter responded to the kidding from newsmen about "the imperialization of Jimmy." He put his entire staff aboard a chartered airliner for the return flight. Back in Plains, he inherited another badge of high office: a direct telephone link with the White House switchboard, complete with a device for scrambling any sensitive conversations so possible eavesdroppers could not catch the meaning...
...chance to even go for a swim in the pool that was given to us by [former U.S. Ambassador] Walter Annenberg or to walk around the rose garden in beautiful weather. There was one thing I predicted I would miss-and I was right. That is the switchboard. It was first class. You picked up the phone and asked for someone, and you got him, no matter where. Now you've got to dial for yourself, and the only scar I got was a sore finger from doing my own dialing because I wasn't used...
...White House telephone operator was frantic. "Some guy on TV in Philadelphia," she said, had just told angry consumers to phone complaints directly to the President, and the switchboard was jammed. The guy was Herbert S. Denenberg, 46, lawyer, author (seven books), former college professor, hell-raising former Pennsylvania insurance commissioner (TIME, July 10, 1972), and currently one of the funniest, roughest consumer-affairs reporters ever to read fine print on a label...
...Convention service charges" on all equipment being installed by the New York Telephone Company. Thus, a six-button phone that normally costs $29 is $127; a switchboard that is ordinarily $542 is $1,161; a unit that cost one major user less than $4,000 in Miami, and will be $5,000 in Kansas City, is $7,000 in New York City...
...list contains customary recognitions of various sorts for a host of Wilson's aides, including his personal physician, a chauffeur, two secretaries, a cleaning woman, and a Downing Street switchboard operator. Also honored were two actors, Stanley Baker and John Mills, and a nightclub and TV performer noted for his Wilson impersonations. But the most remarkable feature of the list was the number of businessmen -eleven in all-given either peerages or knighthoods by a Prime Minister who at least theoretically is committed to socialism...