Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporting the Prime Minister's suit against the International Herald Tribune, British newspapers were compelled to be even more oblique. All the Daily Telegraph felt able to say, for example, was that the "Prime Minister's solicitors confirm that, when in New York on other matters," Wilson's counsel, Lord Goodman, "agreed to attend a meeting of lawyers to discuss the possibility of disposing by agreed settlement the serious legal complaint made by the Prime Minister against an international publication...
...Kaoru Ikeya suddenly grew tense. He had spotted an unfamiliar blob of light in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Five minutes later, 240 miles away in Kochi, Tsutomu Seki located the same strange object. Both checked their star maps, then hurriedly mounted their bicycles and pedaled furiously to the nearest telegraph office. There they dispatched the word to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Incredibly, the same two amateur astronomers who had independently but almost simultaneously discovered 1965's famous and brilliant Ikeya-Seki comet had discovered another...
When two companies agree to merge and then the deal falls through, neither side is likely to be very happy about it. Last week, after International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. called off its proposed get-together with American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., the reaction was not at all usual: sighs of relief were audible in the front offices of both companies...
...both areas, according to Curle, poverty, though still basic, has ceased to be the explosive problem. The immediate cause of unrest is the rise and frustration of aspiration--the product, incidentally, of an awareness generated in no small measure by men like Curle. What the telegraph and telephone have done for African blacks, the work of community organizers and OEO personnel had done for American Negroes. Education--in school and out--has driven home the growing gap between the rich and the poor, holding forth a promise of improvement on which society is daily reneging...
...here now," Ireland announced that he was stepping out. Weary of the wars? No, just going to a new theater. This week, pending routine board approval, the redhaired, crew-cut campaigner will move one block down on Manhattan's Park Avenue to the headquarters of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Though he will be only one of 24 vice presidents, Ireland will play a familiar role as special assistant to ITT Chairman and President Harold S. Geneen...