Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carew in this fine summer. To be a hitter so confident that you turn down offers from teammates and coaches to steal signs and telegraph you the next pitch. "It doesn't matter what the pitch is-I'll get my cut at it." To know that if you do hit .400, the season of '77 will be remembered as the one that belonged to Rod Carew. And to know that, .400 season or not, your place in the history of your sport is already secure. "He doesn't have to prove anything," says Manager Mauch...
...majority of her subjects clearly appreciate the manner in which she has fulfilled her unique constitutional role: embodying the nation's unity, providing historical continuity, standing above party strife and class divisions. "We yearn for symbols of national unity," wrote Tory Elder Statesman Lord Hailsham in the Sunday Telegraph. "The Americans have their Constitution and flag. In addition to our flag, we have our Queen." Nonetheless, as Hailsham told TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, he fears that the institution of the monarchy remains "vulnerable to a bad monarch" and that even a good Queen like Elizabeth "cannot serve...
After presenting the living conditions of the Chilean workers, Avenue documents American interference in Chilean affairs under the U.P. government. Footage from Chilean news broadcasts and American Senate hearings illustrates the extent to which the CIA and the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) fomented opposition to Allende's regime. By creating economic chaos, multinational companies and the CIA managed to bring small businessmen and other members of the Chilean middle class into the opposition...
Child rearing and glacial activity aside, hardly anything moves slower than a major antitrust case against a big U.S. corporation. The Government filed suit to break up American Telephone & Telegraph in 1974; last fall the federal courts finally decided that they had jurisdiction to hear the case-so the Government and company served each other with demands for millions of documents to be examined before trial. The Federal Trade Commission's suit against eight major oil companies is flowing about as speedily as heavy motor oil; it was filed four years ago, but lawyers do not expect trial...
...family. Miserable in her marriage to a pedantic schoolmaster (Rex Robbins), Masha (Ellen Burstyn) stumbles into a hopeless, heart-wrenching affair with the garrison's Lieut. Colonel Vershinin (Denholm Elliott). The youngest sister, Irina (Tovah Feldshuh), seeks to be ennobled by the "dignity of work" in the local telegraph office...