Word: buzzers
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When there's a phone call for a girl in a Radcliffe dorm, the maid downstairs rings a buzzer in that girl's room, sending her to the phone on her own floor. But usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri...
...drizzly afternoon last week Patrick Morgan O'Laughlin pressed a buzzer. Workmen at the Dravo Corporation, on Neville Island near Pittsburgh, knocked the blocks out from under a squat, flat-bottomed craft perched on the ways in Dravo's west yard. A tank landing ship slid down the smoking ways into the Ohio River...
Workmen on the 8:30 a.m.-to-4:30 p.m. shift cheered, picked up their lunch pails, went home. Workmen on the next shift were already swarming around a second, identical craft perched on the ways. Paddy O'Laughlin, swearing lustily, pressed another buzzer. Down to the river slid the second ship. Chortled tough, wiry Mr. O'Laughlin, who started his career as a rivet "cooker," rose to become general superintendent of the Dravo yards: "I'm so happy I feel like going home and beating up my wife...
...minutes, though never by more than eight points. But where they were short on sinew the Mountaineers more than made up with heart. With the score at 45-all and 20 seconds left to play, little Hicks sank the winning foul shot. As the timekeeper's buzzer went off, Hamilton was fouled and sank another...
Then he pressed a buzzer-the one that goes off like a small bomb under Steve Early's desk. Down the colonnade that is called the President's Walk, past the swimming pool and up the elevator, there awaited him a highball, a Christmas tree shiny with colored balls and tinsel, two soap-smelling, be-diapered grandsons-warmth and relief from the crushing responsibility, the solemn loneliness that is a U. S. President's when he has to make a momentous decision...