Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From longtime admirers and antagonists tributes flowed in for the man who put a unique and inexpungeable stamp on British history. "I am deeply grieved at the loss of my oldest and closest friend," said Winston Churchill. "The Daily Telegraph," said that paper, "found itself on the opposite side of almost every major argument in which he and his newspapers engaged. But there was never any disputing the deep impact which he had upon his times." Wrote the Times: "He was that increasingly rare phenomenon in a standardized age, a personality quite uncramped by convention or inhibition...
...these newsmen, Rockefeller's organization seemed a marvel of efficiency. Nothing was left to chance. At every stop on Rocky's itinerary, accommodations for the press were waiting: typewriters, pencils, paper, telegraph facilities, telephones, press releases. Transportation was there when it was needed. So were the hotel rooms. And so was Rockefeller himself, nearly always available to any reporter who wanted to talk to him. Wherever Rocky went, his smooth public relations firm of Spencer-Roberts saw to it that the crowds were there to greet him; in San Jose, for example, Spencer-Roberts rounded up more than...
...would not loft a satellite for another year or a profit for at least three. But buyers were motivated by a sense of patriotism, a desire to become charter members in an exciting enterprise, and the solid conviction that any company backed by the Government and by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. was ultimately bound to succeed. Said one Manhattan investor: "I'm buying this stock for my grandchildren...
...Government often uses its vast powers to restrain big companies and give the smaller fellows a lift. But last week, as the federally sponsored Communications Satellite Corp. sold its first 5,000,000 shares (at $20 apiece) to U.S. communications companies, executives of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were pleasantly surprised by the size of their allotment: 2,895,750 shares. That will give A.T. & T. by far the largest stake-a dominant 29% ownership-in the space company, which will transmit television programs, telephone calls and telegraph messages...
...million, holding is only two-thirds of what it bid for, the block is big enough to entitle Mother Bell to share a signal honor with the President of the U.S.: each will appoint three members to Comsat's 15-man board. International Telephone & Telegraph, which bought a 10.5% holding, will name one member, while General Telephone (3.5%) and RCA (2.5%), will join, with 159 other smaller communications companies-all of which got all the shares that they asked for-to elect two members...