Word: shorthand
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...Frenchmen the words "an Algerian election" have long served as satirical shorthand to describe a rigged vote, and Charles de Gaulle's first four elections in Algeria did little to change the time-honored meaning of the phrase. But for his fifth Algerian election, completed last week, De Gaulle's orders were strict: the French army was to put no pressure on Moslem voters; civilians were to run the polls and, where possible, the transportation to them. Last week De Gaulle had one result he was after: the first honest political profile of revolt-torn Algeria...
...therapy of the sun; his restless mind was as busy as a hummingbird. From the sprawling old ranch house came the clatter of typewriter keys, as a pretty secretary tapped out a just-dictated letter; when Johnson called her through a handy squawk box, the secretary would return, her shorthand notebook and pencil at the ready. From time to time she handed Johnson a convenient extension telephone, with an urgent call from Washington or some other distant spot. Without a telephone at arm's reach, Senator Johnson is as wretched as a squirrel without a tree...
...forth through the courts for twelve years after he was sentenced to death. His major appeals have revolved around the disputed, 2,000-page transcript of his 1948 trial. Court Reporter Ernest Perry died of a heart attack when he had finished transcribing only one-third of his shorthand notes, and his death, plus an error on the part of Judge Fricke, threw the case into a legal limbo...
...general supervision of the Joint Committee on Printing, the Record's front-line troops are the official debate reporters, who catch the words uttered in the congressional chambers and get them down on paper. Reporters follow a debate like a mobile audience at a tennis match, use shorthand rather than stenographic machines so that they can more easily move from place to place in the chambers. Each reporter spends a five-minute "turn" (in the House) or a ten-minute "folio" (in the Senate) on the floor, then hustles down to the official reporters' office to read...
...only main room entirely bare of sculpture was the busy one fitted up as a one-man stock exchange, complete with both Dow-Jones and N.Y. Stock Exchange tickers, where Billy speculates in regal solitude (Rose began his career at 17 as a shorthand stenographer for that dean of speculators, Bernard Baruch). Shrugging back the shawl collar of his bulky white cardigan to expose the embroidered red "B.R." on the breast of his black polo shirt, Rose said he hoped to fill the empty places in his mansion with more antique furniture. As for his garden: "I may glass that...