Word: telegraphe
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Edgar Sanders, 48, tall, bespectacled Briton who was a representative of International Telephone & Telegraph in Budapest, was tried with Robert Vogeler of the U.S. in the strange Budapest "spy case" of 1950, has since served three years of a 13-year prison sentence. The U.S. ransomed Vogeler in 1951, the British had nothing satisfactory to offer for Sanders...
...such papers as the London Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Observer, or the Manchester Guardian, where U.S. coverage is quieter and more complete, Britons do get a much more rounded picture of the U.S. But even the Times, instead of trying to explain the problem of Communists in government, often brushes the whole matter off as "witch hunting" and a shrill campaign . . . against 'spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said...
...message ran over them telegraph wires...
Cable Trouble. In a recent American Journal of Science, Bruce C. Heezen and Maurice Ewing of Columbia University buttress this theory with a neat bit of historical research. In 1929 a strong earthquake shook the continental shelf 450 miles east of Nova Scotia. It cut a whole sheaf of telegraph cables in a peculiar way. Six cables went out at the same time, but others did not fail until many hours later...
...Nehru of "deliberate delay in [forming] Andhra state." When the All-India Parliament refused to stand up in homage to Sriramulu's memory, the Communist members walked out. A wave of hysterical emotion swept Andhra territory. Students, youths and workers, led by Communists, attacked Indian government property, cut telegraph wires, damaged railroads, burned rail cars and stoned fire engines, looted railroad restaurants, hoisted black flags of mourning over government buildings. Police, firing on rioters, killed seven and wounded forty. A 13-year-old boy attempted to halt a moving bus by standing in its path, and was run over...