Word: telegrapher
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...reconnaissance reports suggested that the rebels had massed thousands of Simbas for a last-ditch stand, Lieut. Colonel Mike Hoare and his men took Watsa without firing a shot. Leaving their weapons behind them, the Simbas vanished into the rain forest, presumably demoralized by the warning of the jungle telegraph: "The white giants are coming...
...field. It not only has the unprecedented job of orbiting three to 18 satellites by 1967, but has had to negotiate with 45 foreign powers to persuade them to join the system. The U.S. Government estimates that by 1980 more than 78% of all international communications, including telephone, telegraph, television, data transmission and perhaps facsimile newspapers, will be carried by satellites. Comsat will be the prime carrier, the wholesaler of satellite communications...
...flaps have been surprisingly few. In negotiations over whether Comsat or the communications users should own the permanent ground stations in the U.S., Comsat found itself at odds with its largest single stockholder-American Telephone & Telegraph. The question was tossed to the Federal Communications Commission, which must reach a decision soon so that Comsat can draw up a proposed schedule of rates. But these are minor irritations. Comsat still promises to give the world a revolutionary new communications system...
Protests. At Reeb's death, telegraph wires burned across the country with expressions of outrage. The A.F.L.C.I.O. was "appalled." The American Jewish Committee protested the "shameful exhibition of brutality." The United Steelworkers Union wired Governor Wallace, accusing him and his "storm troopers" of cold violence...
...good to have him back," said a zoo official. "He is used to people and good square meals." Many a Londoner would take wistful exception. As the Daily Mail put it, Goldie "is the flying symbol of all men lost in urban civilization." Added the Daily Telegraph's editorial page: "Perhaps we are all mirrored in the behavior of Goldie, victims of the welfare state, tending to lose our self-reliance and mobility...