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Miller had been in this state since May 14, the day (and night) he had sat on the sidewalk in front of the Sears on Telegraph Avenue for 22 hours in order to buy tickets for the concert. "I missed the Stones in '65, when they came through my home town in New York. They only did one song because everybody went bananas and started a riot. I missed 'em again in '69, when I was in college, but this time...
...million of Gulf stock is part of a portfolio that includes over $10 million each of stock in Polaroid (the company that brought you colonialism in South Africa and identity cards in the United States). Middle South Utilities (a leading practitioner of racism in Mississippi). International Telephone and Telegraph, and American Telephone and Telegraph (one of the top defense contractors in the nation, and the country's best example of sexism in employment according to a recent report of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission...
When it was written several months ago, International Telephone and Telegraph seemed the beau ideal of corporate success: under the twelve-year reign of Chairman and President Harold Sydney Geneen, it had run up a dazzling profit-growth record by expanding into almost every conceivable business in some 80 countries round the world. But by the time the report was issued in March, ITT was enmeshed in a series of controversies that have seriously undermined its "public acceptance." Indeed, they have provided a case history of the perils of relationships-for both sides -between big multinational corporations and Government...
Setting the Pace. For Hooker, the strike furnished a good excuse to close the old-fashioned Telegraph and shift much of his editorial force to the more efficient Racing Form, a computerized operation. The Form will retain much of the Telegraph's flavor. "Chart Callers," for example, will still encapsulate the drama of a race with the same terse economy they exercised in each issue of the Telegraph: "SOLAR NAIL saved ground from the start, got through rallying in the stretch and outgamed ODDS HAVE IT to the wire." Or "BOBS B BEES quickest to begin, moved...
Founded in 1833, the Telegraph's roster of writers over the years included H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, Louella Parsons, Ben Hecht, George Jean Nathan and Heywood Broun, who was fired. When it carried Walter Winchell's "Beau Broadway" column in the 1920s, the Telegraph was studied as closely as Variety at Broadway restaurants such as Sardi's and Lindy's. Even in recent years the paper kept five staffers on the show-biz beat. One of the most popular writers in the 1950s was Columnist Tom O'Reilly, who used to write a Monday piece...