Word: telegraphe
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...months ago, Goulart got President Kennedy's general agreement to a plan under which the utilities would be nationalized for fair value. Brazilian Traction agreed. So did American & Foreign Power Co. Inc., whose eleven subsidiaries, worth $250 million, produce 10% of Brazil's power. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which recently lost a telephone system to Rio Grande do Sul's Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola and is still trying to collect, was noncommittal. But Goulart's decree last week should do something to ease I.T. & T.'s pain. The government promises a down payment...
...government, which was still defying public opinion by resisting a 2.5% pay raise for the nation's nurses (many earn only $20 weekly), was lambasted on all sides. Cried the Sunday Telegraph: "This is weakness that will not be readily forgotten or forgiven." By week's end, openly rebellious Conservative backbenchers were charging that pay inequities were directly responsible for the Tories' sweeping electoral setbacks over the past six months. Smarting from their defeats, many demanded that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fire Party Chairman Iain Macleod-even though it was he who mapped the strategy that swept...
Official AMerican Telephone & Telegraph Co., proprietors of the Bell System, admits a twinge of REgret over the passing of the time-honored names, many of which are holdovers from the days of "Hello, Central, give me Main 444." But the telephone company maintains that there is no other choice in the face of rapidly expanding dialing facilities and the increase in the number of telephone sets across the nation...
...sound-alike exchange names such as MItchell and MUtual; no more confusion over dialing PA for PEnnsylvania instead of PE; elimination of letters themselves from dials, making them easier to use; the possibility of worldwide direct dialing, even to countries with exotic alphabets. Says Leland B. Lindberg, American Telephone & Telegraph spokesman: "This is the least undesirable way of increasing combinations...
...British intellectuals that the U.S. is "the country one must go to in order to see what is novel and important," and that "Americans have been into the dark places, and the lighter places too, of the human imagination and have found some answers for us all." Added Daily Telegraph Pundit Peregrine Worsthorne: "The ambitious, young, lower-middle-class Tory sees America as an attractive kind of society because there is no doubt that in America, if you have what it takes to be successful, when you get to the top you are in the full sense accepted...