Word: telegraphe
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...prime example of this is Teléfonos, which Trouyet has turned into Mexico's biggest publicly held company. Nationalization talk was widespread in the late 1950s after its two previous controlling owners, International Telephone & Telegraph and Sweden's Ericsson telephone group, passed word that they were becoming disenchanted with the then weak company. But Trouyet persuaded the government to let his private group buy it for $25 million, later sweetened the pot by putting three government men on the board. Today well-run Telefonos has about 50,000 shareholders in Mexico, and a fortnight...
...halting English, a Moslem telegraph operator in the Middle East tapped out on the telex: "Is it correct Kennedy killed pis?" When New York replied, "Yes, an hour ago," the Moslem signed off, "How sorrowful...
Europe's Common Market lives on crisis. Each sign of a major disagreement lures teams of journalists to Brussels, often to pronounce that the market is dying or dead. The Six's troubles turn a fancy profit for the telegraph companies, the hotels and the nightclubs. Even the Eurocrats find the disputes tolerable because they create headlines, drama, personal attention and, most important of all, the pressures that ultimately produce agreement In the market's six-year history, every big fight over prices or procedures has led to urgent bargaining marathons that eventually welded the Six closer...
Ironically, for all their emphasis on foreign affairs, the Tories may be saved by the recent economic upsurge, which could be the palliative necessary to prevent a wide-spread voter revolt. But statistics are hardly encouraging. A recent Daily Telegraph Gallup poll reported that Labor led the Conservatives by 9 1/2 percentage points. And the disastrous Tory record in by-elections was continued last week when they absorbed a surprisingly large defeat at Luton. As an industrial town with full employment and considerable prosperity, Luton typifies more than a hundred constituencies which the Tories win to retain power...
Having been set adrift by the News of the World, Churchill will probably land on another London paper. It is not likely to be the Daily Mail, though, or the Daily Telegraph or the Evening Standard. Randolph has already been there...