Word: telegraphs
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...already racing toward the heart of Saigon. A primary target was police headquarters, where some troops surrounded the building while others rushed inside to put pro-Diem officials under arrest. Other groups of troops showed up at navy headquarters, on the banks of the Saigon River, and at the telegraph office and radio station...
...speed the answer, ardent Latins, in particular, sometimes telegraph their admiration for an attractive woman by squeezing her fingers or locking on to them with both hands. After all, cracks Italian Moviemaker Vittorio De Sica: "You've got to start somewhere...
...stationery, postage and telephone allowances for Representatives, despite some fiery denunciations by Iowa Dollar Watcher H. R. Gross. The Representatives voted themselves a $600 increase in stationery allowance (to $2,400 per year), an extra $100 a year for airmail and special-delivery stamps, and an 11% increase in telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back here and snipe year...
...flurry of edicts, Sukarno cut off all phone, telegraph, postal, airline and shipping links with Malaysia and abruptly halted all Indonesian trade with the federation. The trade embargo was childishly spiteful and totally without logic, for it would do far more damage to Indonesia than to Malaysia. Over 52% of Indonesia's total annual ex ports of $674 million is to the federation, and most of Indonesia's shipping is funneled through Singapore and Penang. Only Singapore has the facilities to process the low grades that make up much of Indonesia's rubber crop...
...people will not retreat in the face of colonialism," he said. "We must fight and destroy Malaysia." Last week Foreign Secretary Lord Home declared solemnly that Britain was determined to maintain diplomatic relations with Indonesia despite Sukarno's provocations. Though Sukarno backed down slightly and restored phone and telegraph communications with Malaysia, Britain's military headquarters in the Far East were making full preparations to fight if Sukarno carried his threats to the point of outright combat...