Word: telegrapher
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Telephone & Telegraph, which wants to put up a $170 million network of 50 satellites to carry telephone calls and television throughout the world...
...moneymaking, money-losing frenzy was started by a statement from Tel-Autograph's President Raymond E. Lee that his company had been told by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.: "For the first time message-rate telewriter service will be permitted over telephone lines on a local and long-range basis." "This means," stated Lee, "it is now possible to send a handwritten message instantaneously by telephone...
Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions-his own or anybody else's. Last week, fresh back from six weeks in the U.S., Worsthorne reported in London's Daily Telegraph his sharp disagreement with the image, "popular in some quarters, of a nation sick and lethargic after eight years of the Eisenhower Administration...
Time for Action. Australia was swept by the kind of outrage that followed the 1932 Lindbergh kidnaping in the U.S. "This case." said the Sydney Daily Telegraph, "must never be closed until the killers are behind bars or the govern ment puts into action - on the gallows - the overwhelming inclinations of the people." New South Wales's Labor government is dead set against capital punishment, but at week's end Premier Heffron promised to consider "drastic increases" in the state's maximum kidnaping penalty of ten years. Public pressure was building up for Australia's national...
...tiny topsail schooner Pickle leaked and bucked her way past Spanish Finisterre, through Biscay's Bay, past French Finistere, and English Land's End, to Falmouth. The "telegraph" (semaphore) to London was unfinished. So Pickle's skipper, Lieut. John Richards Lapenotiere, jounced for 37 hours in a post chaise to Whitehall. It was 16 days after the fleet's guns fell silent that Lapenotiere rode through Admiralty Arch, strode into the secretary's office and announced baldly: "Sir, we have gained a great victory, but we have lost Lord Nelson...