CAMPAIGN ’88 : Tree Phone? Can Do
<i> Associated Press</i>
Telephone companies are busy rewiring Atlanta for next month’s Democratic National Convention, and they are promising to install phones just about anywhere, even in trees.
“We’ve examined the places where you’re likely to get protests: Piedmont Park, Central City Park. . . . We’ll be able to drop ‘em a business line from a tree in Piedmont Park if that’s what they want. Maybe not in two hours, but close,” said Paul Harman, convention coordinator for Southern Bell.
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