Word: telegraphe
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Puzzling out Kennedy's campaign line, European analysts usually came to something like "flexibility," and not much more. But most were confident that Kennedy meant change. Observed Britain's conservative Daily Telegraph: "The American people have chosen adventure. Such a choice from such a people could well mark a turning point in history towards an era full of peril but also of great promise." Largely unspoken at official levels but widely discussed in editorials was a widespread feeling that in its declining days, the Eisenhower Administration had somehow lost its first confident touch or, at any rate, lost...
...Times continues the cutback of the Hearst chain since control of the empire passed to Hearst Corporation President Richard Berlin after the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. More interested in profits than press power, Berlin got rid of the Chicago American and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. Says one Hearst executive: "For years our strong papers-Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle, Los Angeles-have been drained by losing operations. In the last two years we have decided on concentrating our resources in those areas where there...
...them and myself a disservice to inject myself into the papers." Besides, Roy Thomson is too busy peering through his binocular-thick glasses at more good buys on the world's far horizons. It is an open Fleet Street secret that he has designs on the London Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,220,389), biggest and most popular of London's "quality" dailies. And he has far from satisfied his appetite for papers in the U.S., where he has only eight (biggest: the St. Peters burg, Fla. Times), including five weeklies. Says Thomson longingly : "There are thou sands...
...storm smashed telephone and telegraph lines so thoroughly that it was five days before the news reached Dacca, less than 100 miles away. Even so, the first government official to visit the area reported "four boys washed away," and called other casualty figures "grossly exaggerated." But last week, eleven days after the storm struck, the estimate was that the total would be "unimaginably higher'' than the 5,000 dead reported on Ramgati and Hatia alone. Getting out of his Jeep to inspect some still-standing huts in the stricken region, East Pakistan Governor Lieut. General Azam Khan observed...
COMMERCIAL SATELLITE will be launched by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. within a year. A. T. & T. will put a 175-lb. experimental communications satellite in a north-south orbit over the Atlantic to transmit telephone calls and TV broadcasts between North America and Europe...