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Cheaper Wires. The customer will get a few breaks. American Telephone & Telegraph estimates that phone users will save $740 million over last year. The phone-call tax has been cut from 10% to 3%. Thus the $1.10 maximum price on long-distance calls anywhere within the U.S. after 8 p.m. will drop to $1.03. Also to be passed along are the 10% excise cuts on telegrams and the minuscule .04% to .11% saving on stock and bond transfers, which for all its smallness will still amount to $75 million for the consumer...
...powerful Presidency Council, which serves as a sort of collective chief of state. Two days before the revolt was to come off last month, the garrison commander at Horns jumped the gun by arresting three pro-Hafez officers-counting on Syria's notoriously poor telephone and telegraph communications to keep the word from reaching the capital 90 miles away. The news got back anyway, and the conspiratorial commanders were arrested. In a ten-hour showdown behind closed doors, Hafez retained the support of Baath's eleven-member "International Command," made up of Lebanese, Iraqis and Jordanians as well...
Slow Fame. Though public fame has not yet overtaken Transamerica's rising fortunes, competitors have been quick to recognize the company's innovations in the merchandising of financial services. In varying degrees, such giants as Sears Roebuck, J. C. Penney, and even International Telephone & Telegraph Co. have adopted the department-store concept of finance pioneered by Transamerica. Beckett wants "to blanket the U.S., Canada and Europe" with Transamerica financial services. By feeding business from one Transamerica subsidiary to another, and eventually selling all of the company's services through single outlets, he aims to create a financial...
...Although it has sales of $421 million and operates 401 movie theaters, it has not had the plentiful cash with which its rivals dominate the TV screen. But last week the word at ABC was money-lots of it. After a year of dickering, the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1964 sales: $1.5 billion) agreed to acquire ABC in a move that, if it goes through as expected, will produce a new electronics-entertainment colossus. The combination would outrank Radio Corp. of America (1964 sales: $1.8 billion) and its NBC subsidiary, leave CBS as the only major network without...
When the far-flown volunteers were asked to punch a telegraph key on seeing a light flash, their reaction times were almost twice as long as at home. Internal body temperature took at least four days to shift to the new day-night cycle. Heart rate and water loss through perspiration took still longer...