Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas to the office of President Kennedy, to the final, bewildering stopover in Manhattan. Bashir continued to drop his petals and to charm the natives. Finally, just as he was about to depart from the U.S. on his jet-propelled magic carpet ride back to Pakistan, Bashir got a telegram from Lyndon Johnson that moved him to tears. Wired L.B.J.: "Since your return to Pakistan takes you so close to Mecca, arrangements have been made through the People-to-People program for you to visit there." Cried Bashir Ahmad: "Allah be praised...
Twenty-four Harvard faculty members signed a telegram sent to Premier Khrushchev hours before Monday's enormous nuclear explosion calling upon him to "stop the current series of Soviet nuclear bomb tests, and in particular, to cancel the 50 megaton hydrogen bomb test...
...sharply worded telegram pointed to the large numbers of still-births, cases of leukemia, bone cancer, and mutations that will result from continuing bomb tests, and reminded Khrushchev that the disastrous effects of the bomb will be shared by the Russian people at an "enormous cost...
Still later, a Labor Department mediator called to ask for a little top-level pressure to push a labor-management settlement. "Yes, I think I can help," replied Goldberg. And without bothering to check with the White House, Arthur Goldberg began dictating a telegram: "The President has asked me to urge...
...openly blamed Reuther for causing the mess with a telegram he had dispatched to the locals telling them they were free to go on strike if they had no agreement on local issues when the national deadline came. Piqued Government officials agreed that Reuther had blundered badly with his telegram, mistakenly believing that he had his members on a Yo-Yo, could call them out for a few days to put a bit of extra pressure on G.M. and then send them back...