Word: telegraphe
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...Telegraph Avenue is lined with petty peddlers in cheap jewelry, serious arts-and-crafts people, and all kinds of hustlers on the make. I fit right in trying to sell my three records. There was another guy on the corner with several boxes full of albums going for a buck and a quarter, but I looked them over and they were in pretty sad shape. I decided to sell mine for two and a half dollars. It was a buyer's market that day; the most I could do was enjoy the people walking...
...confirmation hearings, which were conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee. In effect Kleindienst admitted that he had not been completely candid when he testified that as Deputy Attorney General, he had not been pressured by the White House to drop an antitrust case against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., which was to pledge up to $400,000 to the G.O.P. In fact, the President himself had given Kleindienst such an order (which Kleindienst refused to carry out), saying: "You son of a bitch, don't you understand the English language...
...said that a lawsuit brought against American Telephone and Telegraph for discrimination against women "really shook up industry," and "had the impact of the Supreme Court Ruling in Brown v. Board of Education...
...enthusiast; of pneumonia; in Sydney. Packer began making waves with the launching of Australian Women's Weekly, today the country's top-circulation weekly magazine. He went on to build a profitable publishing and television conglomerate and in 1972 sold his two largest newspapers, the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, to his archrival, Rupert Murdoch, for $20 million. Once an amateur heavyweight boxing champion, Packer was combative, even ruthless, in his business dealings. He described his unsuccessful bids for the yachting America's Cup in 1962 and 1970 as prompted by "an excess of champagne...
...whole thing is still very much in the formative stages; Rodrigues says he would have to get re-elected to the ACSR next year to carry out his plan. But he says the corporation that immediately comes to mind for possible divestiture is International Telephone and Telegraph, and that he doesn't believe Harvard should divest its stock in Gulf, as the Pan-African Liberation Committee demanded two years...