Word: telegrapher
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After long service on such national newspapers as the London Times, Observer and Sunday Telegraph, Fairlie discovered that the local, community-based papers of the U.S. were a welcome change of pace. Having spent seven months in the U.S. last year, he decided that the future of U.S. newspapers is bright, "partly as a result of the pressure of the reading public. Much more aware of the problems of urban life and of the inadequate response of political leaders, the readers want aggressive journalism. The will must be there in publisher or editor; but the economic base is strong...
...become more flexible in its politics, but is influential only with select members of the British Establishment and upper classes. While its own circulation has slipped 5,624 to 254,377 in the past five years, it has watched its chief competitors in the "quality" press-the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian-gradually win more readers. As Times Editor Sir William Haley, 64, put it in an editorial last week, "Uniqueness is not a virtue if it becomes mere eccentricity. There is no future for any newspaper as a museum piece...
...International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. shareholders heartily approved a proposed acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company, which has annual sales of $400 million; the move would raise ITT from 31st largest U.S. corporation to a rank, according to Chairman Harold S. Geneen, "within...
...cheery vulgarity strike an ugly contrast with the stately London that still persists in the quieter squares of Belgravia or in such peaceful suburbs as Richmond. They argue that credulity and immorality, together with a sophisticated taste for the primitive, are symptoms of decadence. The Daily Telegraph's Anthony Lejeune two weeks ago decried "aspects of the contemporary British scene which have not merely surprised the outside world but which increasingly provoke its contempt and derision. To call them symptoms of decadence may be facile as an explanation, but it has a disturbing ring of truth." Tradition-loving Londoners...
...January, when former Premier Michel Debre took over the Economics Ministry, the word was passed that France once again would welcome American investment. Thus Chicago-based Motorola has just won official permission to build a multimillion-dollar plant at Toulouse to make transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. recently received approval for a semiconductor factory at Colmar, and the French subsidiary of Caterpillar got authority in mid-March to double the size of its Grenoble tractor factory. Though the French still consider some industries off limits for foreign capital-among them, defense, steel, chemicals and some types...