Word: telegrammed
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...Chief of Naval Personnel in Washington sent a telegram to the 21 students in the Harvard class of '73 who had signed up for the Naval ROTC program. The Navy said that it would not run a ROTC program here next year, and it urged the 21 students to enroll in some other college where Naval ROTC was still being given...
...April 15, Harvard received a telegram from Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury, asking the College to buy $30,000 in bonds towards the Victory Liberty Loan. Within a week the Contributions Committee, which had offered a German helmet to the best canvasser, had reached the Harvard quota. By May 12, the University had purchased $160,900 in bonds...
Earthy Language. "This is a proud moment for the country," President Nixon told the astronauts in a three-minute phone call from his White House office to the Princeton, and other congratulations came in from all the world. But the acclaim was not universal. In a telegram to the President and to NASA, Larry Poland, 29, president of Miami Bible College Inc., complained that the Apollo 10 astronauts had carried "the language of the street" to the moon and called on the crew to repent their "profanity, vulgarity and blasphemy." Each astronaut, said the minister, should be required to issue...
...morning Sir Edward's wife intercepts a telegram from his mistress. From that instant, the farce ascends into a blackened comedy of Eros. The More family is dissolved; Sir Edward and his new lady become a ménage à trois when they are joined by her lover, Hervé (Jean-Claude Drouot), who is posing as a homosexual. Together the two take More for all he has-including his senses. When an automobile accident robs Sir Edward of his sight, he becomes pathetically dependent on Margot. Trapped in a Mediterranean villa, he is blindly unaware that the deception...
...Negro, to be its next mayor-by 2,567 votes out of a record 4,734 cast. Lee is the eleventh black mayor in the South, but the first to be elected in a predominantly white Southern community. Said former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a congratulatory telegram: "This is a new breakthrough in Southern politics...