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Operators, who were instructed to stay with the call until it had been relayed to the police or fire department, logged 48 emergency calls in the first three days. A motel owner rushed to a pay booth to report that a guest had left without paying his parking fee; teen-agers were fighting in a street; suspected robbers were seen breaking into a store; and one, fire was spotted...
Trumpet Player Chet Baker, still waiting at Los Angeles Airport at the hour his trio was due to perform in a nightclub near San Francisco, took his horn into a phone booth, piped his third of the music 350 miles north by wire and loudspeaker. A pretty young girl, pleading with a Chicago ticket clerk for a flight to a San Francisco wedding (her own), was surprised to hear the man in line behind her say: "Funny, I've got to get to San Francisco for a divorce-my own." Both got aboard...
...world ("Private, Keep Out") or for an intangible circle surrounding the individual ("My private life is my own"). The privacy of a citizen's home and thoughts is the greatest distinction of a democracy from a totalitarian state, symbolized most vividly by the curtain on the voting booth...
...autonomous complex. Each of the 20 divisions is independent, sends a weekly financial, statement to Cummings, who aims for them to earn a pre-tax 20% on employed capital. Two-thirds of the divisions exceed that target. The most profitable are Sara Lee, Ohio's Lawson Milk Co., Booth Fisheries, Shasta Beverages and Eagle Food Centers...
SUPERMAN (Columbia). Superproducer Hal Prince should have nipped into a phone booth and found himself some supermusic for his musical. As it is, both score and lyrics are decidedly Clark Kentish. Recommended only for indefatigable collectors of original-cast albums...