Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some experts consider Sarnoff's approach too visionary, believe that for a long time to come Comsat will serve strictly as a telephone and telegraph conveyance that would only occasionally be used for broadcasting international events of overriding importance. Even so, some form of agreement will have to be reached, if only to settle quarrels that are already looming-over what fees Comsat can collect, what programs it should broadcast, who should own the ground stations that will relay them, and whether Comsat should retain its monopoly status...
...great man had written in My Early Life: "I loved my mother dearly -but at a distance." A painful distance, according to Randolph Churchill, 55, chronicling the early life of Sir Winston Churchill in a biography now being serialized by London's Sunday Telegraph. "Winston's schooldays were the only unhappy part of his life," writes Randolph about his father. "The neglect and lack of interest shown by his parents were remarkable." Winny constantly begged "Mummy and Papa" to visit him at school, but "Lord Randolph was a busy politician; Lady Randolph was caught up in the whirl...
...mornings at his two-room apartment on the 36th floor of Manhattan's Essex House, Bing pauses over his porridge to read the London Daily Telegraph ("I can't lift the New York...
...been resumed. Denied access to Pakistani suppliers, Calcutta's jute mills have been forced to reduce output 25% , while some Dacca cigarette factories have closed down completely because no tobacco is being imported from West Bengal. Travel between the two countries is almost nonexistent, postal and telegraph communications operate far below standard, and rail, road and river traffic is severely curtailed in both nations. India and Pakistan may not be actively at war, but they are not at peace either...
...great relief that Canadians last week saw trains moving again after a seven-day strike. Trickling back to work were 119,000 members of 16 unions that had idled the big Canadian Pacific and Canadian National rail roads, as well as five smaller lines. Back also went employees of telegraph systems and essential ferry lines, which are under the striking unions' jurisdiction...