Word: telegrammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember the "good ole days," when Valentine's Day meant a half-dozen roses, bittersweet chocolates, a singing telegram and a mushy card bordered by heart-shaped doilies? Goodbye to all that...
That left Anglican Bishop Mark Pae of Taejon, South Korea, a foe of women priests, who says that he agreed to consecrate the new bishops last November without realizing that a full-fledged schism was involved. On Jan. 16 he got an urgent telegram from F. Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury. When he phoned Coggan, says Pae, the Archbishop "did not put any pressure on me" but "explained the gravity of the matter." The next day one of the bishops-to-be, C. Dale Doren of Pittsburgh, arrived in Taejon and spent a fruitless week trying...
President Carter, in a telegram to the American Dental Association on Oct. 7, said, "Fluoridation is safe, and...is the most effective public health measure available to improve the nation's dental health and reduce unnecessary dental expenditures...
...singing telegram passed away When Western Union said...
...Thomas W. Danehy, ousted him in June 1970 over many objections. Cambridge residents crowded into the council chambers to protest the move at a hearing required by the city charter, and former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 joined with the then-president of MIT to send a telegram to the nine councilors stating, "Now, as never before, we need stability and continuity in the administrative branch of the city government." (Spring 1970 was the season of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia--the season that a Crimson headline read, "Rioting devastates Harvard Square; Windows smashed, scores injured...