Word: linked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louisiana-born, Irish Baptist McCormack will need his charm and know-how at Comsat. The corporation is busy with plans to link its communications system with an Apollo satellite to be orbited next year by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and to offer Pacific communication similar to Early Bird's European hookup. After that will come a new generation of Comsat satellites that will provide worldwide links with stations in at least 45 countries. On the ground, Comsat is embroiled in arguments. Television networks are unhappy about Comsat's high rates ($5,245 an hour in prime...
...vital link between Johnson and the world was Bill Moyers, 31, the ulcer-plagued, brilliant man Friday whom Lyndon regards almost as a son. It was Moyers who was to be informed first if anything went wrong. And it was he who would have had to decide whether the President's condition warranted the transfer of power to the Vice President. By noon, as it turned out, Moyers announced: "I believe that the President is able to make the decisions that might be necessary...
...Britain wants to link Aden itself with 16 semifeudal and poverty-stricken sheikdoms, sultanates and emirates that form the Aden Protectorate along the South Arabian coast. Mackawee will have none of the proposed federation, possibly because (as the British explain) he is afraid of the terrorists-or possibly because he doesn't fancy being outvoted by 16 sheiks...
...Grands Express Européens. Wagons-Lits is once again demonstrating its durability by restoring the full Paris-to-Bucharest run of the Orient Express, which has not operated in five years. The increasingly Western-minded Rumanians requested restoration of the run so that they could have a link with Paris, agreed to cover whatever losses Wagons-Lits incurred...
...even more striking effect of the merger is that it will link la Générale with another Belgian giant: the Solvay chemical empire, one of the world's biggest family-owned firms. Solvay has long held a controlling interest in the Société Belge de Banque; but the bank's limited deposits of $175 million have proved increasingly inadequate for Solvay's growing needs. Solvay can now tap the vast resources of the banks with which it is merging, and la Générale will strengthen its connection with...