Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apartment) give a friendly nod to Hecht's ghost by having Hildy speak of the time "Ben Hecht was leaving for Hollywood." But neither Hecht nor MacArthur could be expected to countenance what has been done to their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple characterization for comfort...
...chronicler of World War II (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far); of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in Dublin, Ryan studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music before becoming a war correspondent in 1941. He covered the D-day invasion for the London Daily Telegraph; he reported postwar atomic tests in the Pacific and the Israeli 1948 war for TIME. A return to Normandy in 1949 rekindled his fascination with Operation Overlord. Ryan did ten years of painstaking research and conducted more than 1,000 interviews before finishing The Longest...
Zeroing In. Astoundingly, with confidence and capital markets quavering, the Government decided that this was the time to file the biggest antitrust suit in history. It called for the breaking up of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's largest business enterprise in assets ($67 billion), employees (1,005,000),. shareholders (2,930,000) and profits ($2.99 billion last year). Evidently, it is also to be the big coonskin in what President Ford claimed recently would be a major campaign to "zero in on more effective enforcement" of the antitrust laws. Long before the surprise suit is resolved...
EEOC investigations have produced results in at least two other cases. Last year, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was forced to award $15 million in back pay to its female employees after the commission found illegal sex discrimination. And just two weeks ago, the EEOC sought a preliminary injunction in Federal Court, ordering Tufts University to reinstate two women faculty members the commission charged were dismissed because of their...
Hall, a former vice president of the Sheraton Hotels, a subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph, is obsessed, in his own words, with "trying to please the customer." "It's not what we want that counts; it's what you want," Hall says...