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...only one of the six channels; the Associated Press and United Press International are among those who will be using the other five), our new capability out of Saigon adds another facet to a vast communications network that is unique in magazine publishing. Via leased-wire Teletype, Telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities, this network links the TIME-LIFE News Service's 32 bureaus in the U.S. and abroad, whose staff and special correspondents file an average 3,500,000 words a month into the clattering cable room on the 25th floor of the TIME & LIFE Building in Manhattan...
...Also retained by the Allies, under the same arrangement: the exclusive right to tap telephone and telegraph wires and sample mail-privileges that have proved invaluable in keeping tab on the free world's largest (16,000 to 20,000) network of Communist agents...
...thing, the networks fret that when the free-trial period ends, the Communications Satellite Corp. might set an unrealistic fee for its use (current expectation: $6,500 per hour). And for another thing, the networks feel they are already paying an exorbitant amount for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. landlines that now link them to their affiliated stations in the U.S. So ABC Boss Leonard Goldenson has proposed a solution: a domestic version of the Early Bird, which would hover over the U.S., could beam its signals directly to network stations, thus making an end run around...
...telegraph that message, the company's advertising has gradually changed to the brighter side. The ads now identify Ramblers as the "Sensible Spectaculars," and have introduced a number of quite spectacular girls; one ad features a femme fatale who exults upon seeing a Marlin: "Rambler, I didn't think you were THAT kind of car." These changes to the warmer side, however, were accompanied by a growing coolness between American and the ad agency that has held the Rambler account for 28 years: Geyer, Morey, Ballard. This fall the $15 million account will go to Benton & Bowles...
Even before Early Bird reached its final station, it went to work. American Telephone & Telegraph's great horn antenna at Andover, Me., which is now leased by Comsat, sent a television test pattern up to the satellite. Back the pattern came to Andover, its quality so good that Siegfried H. Reiger, Comsat's technical vice president, proudly told a press conference: "The television capability of the Early Bird satellite is established...