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...visionary but also a hustling salesman who could persuade scientists and capitalists to invest their brainpower and money to make his own dreams of the future come true. As a teenager, he taught himself telegraphy and talked his way into an operator's job at the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America. A classic tragedy gave him a big break; the Titanic sank in 1912, and Sarnoff stayed at his key for 72 hours in New York, relaying the news to the world. The Titanic brought much attention to the possibilities of radio communication -and Sarnoff, who soon became...
...Leonid Brezhnev in May. "We are not going to Peking and Moscow as a broker for our allies," says White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, "but we will have their views in mind as we formulate our positions." A State Department official points out that the meetings will "telegraph to the boys in Moscow and Peking, however gently, that the Western world is not in disarray...
...wrote: "We have managed to align ourselves with the wrong side of about as big and simple a moral issue as the world has seen lately; and we have sided with a minor military dictatorship against the world's second largest nation." In Britain, the conservative London Daily Telegraph accused Washington of "a blundering diplomatic performance which can have few parallels...
...days of last summer, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., America's biggest conglomerate, surprised investors by agreeing to sell a clutch of household names that it had acquired in recent years. Among them were home builders Levitt & Sons, Avis Inc. and Hamilton Life Insurance. To ITT insiders, however, the decision was no surprise. Chairman Harold Geneen chose to sell because the alternative was a costly antitrust battle with the Justice Department that would have tied up his company in courts for years, and might still have ended in divestiture...
Brooklyn-born Kriss went to Harvard, where he majored in European history, and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He was a foreign correspondent for the I.N.S. and U.P.I, wire services in Tokyo and served as a telegraph editor for the New York Daily News before joining TIME in 1961. He has written or edited almost every section of the magazine. As a writer in The Nation section he was responsible for some 40 cover stories, and he has edited nearly 30 more as chief of TIME'S World section since mid-1969. Writers for the Review should...