Word: telegrams
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...Telegram to L.B.J. At the University of Michigan-birthplace of the teach-in idea-some 250 demonstrators organized a sit-in at Selective Service headquarters in Ann Arbor; 38, including five teachers, were arrested for trespassing. But from the same school, 2,057 students and teachers sent Lyndon Johnson a 32-ft.-long telegram saying they support his "efforts to bring about a viable peace in Viet...
...hurried off on his bicycle to send a telegram to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. At the same time, it turned out, another amateur astronomer about 240 miles away in the city of Kochi had made the same discovery. Like Ikeya, Tsutomu Seki, 34, a classical-guitar instructor, had also used a simple, homemade telescope and had two previous comet discoveries to his credit...
...three-week strike was officially over, and all New York City newspapers were publishing again. It was an uneasy and precarious peace. The Newspaper Guild's Tom Murphy seemed to he threatening yet another walkout: "If the World-Telegram and Journal-American were to merge," said he, speaking of an event the industry expects, "I could put a picket line out, and they wouldn't publish as individual papers, let alone as a merged paper." Printers' Boss Bert Powers was reminding everyone that he has not given an inch in his demands. Any new contracts, said Powers...
...Glenns flew wearily off to London, the contest editors announced that the winner was a house painter who got Glenn to sign a prepaid telegram and sent it on to the Bild-Zeitung. His prize: three glorious, fun-filled days visiting a German rocket institute...
...John B. Coburn, Dean of the Episcopal Theological School, called the perdict a "shocking travesty of American Justice." Coburn had earlier sent a telegram testifying to Daniels' good character for insertion in the trial record. An observer at the trial said the telegram was presented to the state prosecutor, but that the prosecutor did not present to the court...