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...start building the plant soon, a regional patriot named Amruta Rao went on a hunger strike. Little by little, noisy support for his demand spread through out the state. Last week mobs went on a rampage in dozens of towns, burning post offices and railway stations, tearing down telegraph lines and looting private shops. Finally, after 18 rioters were killed in clashes with police, army troops were brought in by air to restore order...
...Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel any way but bare-ankled. Columbia University students skip the hose for Manhattan theater dates, and at Berkeley, when Theta Delta Chi threw a party, nearly all of the brothers turned up sockless. Maintains Theta Delt David Greenlee, 20: "When you walk down Telegraph among all the beatniks, and you're wearing a pullover sweater and Daks and no socks, it shows a relaxed attitude...
...being: a market test in which Hertz had been making extra sports cars available to see how eagerly drivers with more funds and free time would rent them. Moreover, hard-striving Avis last spring pulled a march on its bigger competitor by accepting a takeover offer from International Telephone & Telegraph, which has the money and means to make Avis larger than...
...decades ago, all David Sarnoff had was the future. Up from steerage, out of grammar school and supporting an immigrant family of six at 15, Sarnoff learned early to run hard. By 17, he had taught himself Morse code and snared a job pounding a telegraph key for the American Marconi Co. He first tasted fame on a night the world would remember-April 14, 1912. Sarnoff picked up a message from the British steamship Titanic. "Hit an iceberg," it read. "Sinking fast." For 72 hours, he stayed at the key, guiding rescue ships and relaying names of survivors. Thereafter...
Some experts consider Sarnoff's approach too visionary, believe that for a long time to come Comsat will serve strictly as a telephone and telegraph conveyance that would only occasionally be used for broadcasting international events of overriding importance. Even so, some form of agreement will have to be reached, if only to settle quarrels that are already looming-over what fees Comsat can collect, what programs it should broadcast, who should own the ground stations that will relay them, and whether Comsat should retain its monopoly status...