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...told to prepare to defend themselves. Impetuous Vlado Dedijer listened for only two minutes, challenged the commission's charges and then stormed out of the room. He dashed off an indignant cablegram to his friend Marshal Tito, who had just left for India (see below}. The government telegraph refused to send it. Dedijer could hardly believe, it seemed, that Tito knew all about the Central Committee's action, and had probably told them only to wait until he got out of town...
...Years or Belmont. Aste won enough with a horse named Jack Point to pay for his Sheepshead Bay home ("the house that Jack built"). He considered bookmakers his natural enemies. "It is no secret," the learned racing journal, the Morning Telegraph, once said, "that he fashioned some of the most devastating racing coups in this hemisphere." His two ambitions: to live to 100 or to win the Belmont Stakes. Aste cared much less about the Kentucky Derby. In 1913 he had the Derby favorite, Ten Point, a son of Jack Point. But the race was won by Donerail...
NLRB SERVICES can no longer be called on by small radio and TV stations, telephone and telegraph companies (less than $200,000 in annual business). By a 3-2 vote, the Republican majority has clipped the board's authority in line with its policy of limiting jurisdiction to cases with a "pronounced effect" on interstate commerce...
Distant Talker. American Telephone & Telegraph has started installing a "distant talking" telephone that picks up conversations within a radius of 5 ft. from the phone, thus permitting several persons to take part in a telephone conference. The set, which includes a microphone and loudspeaker, looks like a conventional phone, can be used by switching on a volume control switch. Price: $6 a month more than standard phones...
When John F. Carrington of the Baptist Missionary Society of London reached his new post in the Belgian Congo 14 years ago, one thing struck him especially: though there was neither telephone nor telegraph around, everyone in the village seemed to know exactly when he and his wife would arrive. The experience so impressed him that Carrington embarked on a second career of his own. Today he is the world's top white expert on the language of the Congo drums...