Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public health dispensary, presented money for a town water-supply system and paused briefly for refreshments and handshaking. Then, with a final wave, he departed for the village of Tacopaya, 25 miles away. Rising to clear the high hills around Arque, the helicopter struck telephone and telegraph cables, bounced back and crashed into a dry riverbed. When horrified villagers reached the burning wreckage, the three men aboard were dead...
...would not say whether the Bruner resolution on ROTC currently before the Faculty represented "a position of political protest against the war." He said that the original Bruner resolution was badly designed in some sections, and that he understood that it was being redrafted. "I wouldn't want to telegraph what the Corporation's action on the Bruner resolution would be," Calkins said...
...other members of the council include: Roy L. Ash, president of Litton industries, who will be chairman of the Council; John B. Connally, former governor of Texas; Frederick R. Kappel, chairman of the executive committee of American Telephone and Telegraph; and Richard M. Paget, a member of the New York consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget...
...government is gradually extending a blackout of neon signs, house lights and auto headlights. Since blackouts are tactically obsolete in an age of electronic detection instruments, the objective seemed to be to bring home to Cairenes the possibility that they might be bombed. All Nile bridges, train stations, telegraph offices and key installations are protected by guards in sandbagged redoubts. Brick blast walls have been built in front of thousands of doorways. MIG-21s make practice scrambles over the city and on the ground are protected by concrete revetments against a surprise attack like the one that wiped out Egypt...
...basement of the Shambala Bookstore on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue near the university's campus, 20-year-old Sheila O'Neil looked up from her calculations on the chart before her and shook her head. "We'd better postpone the organization meeting until next week," she said. "Mercury's going into opposition with Saturn in the 3rd House, which will mean bad communicating. But next Tuesday all systems will...