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Provider of Popsies. Britain's serious press was more critical of the Prime Minister. The Tory Daily Telegraph headlined its Page One account of the report: PREMIER "FAILED" IN PROFUMO AFFAIR. The Times demanded to know why Macmillan had not himself questioned Profumo or checked into other evidence in the case, pointing out that the "Prime Minister selects his ministerial colleagues; responsibility for their fitness for office is his, and serious imputations on their character must concern him personally...
Scheduled to begin at midnight yesterday, the walkout by the 12,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers was averted Saturday morning when the union's executive committee reached agreement on a new contract with the New England Telephone and Telegraph...
...correspondents around the world are in fact on the lookout for the merry and the positive as well as the anguish and the agonizing. A fair proportion of the half a million dollars a year we spend on cables, and the $300,000 that is our reportorial telephone and telegraph bill, is spent on news that is not just crisis. Not because we are trying to strike a false balance, but because we hope to strike a true...
...prize acquisition of all is the Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson, formerly in Baltimore's Peabody Institute. Another highly valuable addition is the Monroe portrait attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse, better known as the inventor of the telegraph. An Andrew Jackson by John Wesley Jarvis, done in 1819, was acquired to supplement Ralph Earl's Jackson, which Teddy Roosevelt's youngest son and playmates lambasted with spitballs one afternoon. The Blue Room portraits of James Madison and John Adams, however, are still only copies...
...Telstar act constituted an enormous gift to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which was allowed to acquire a controlling interest in the Federally-chartered Communications Satellite Corporation. A.T.&T. thus added to its already indecently long list of monopolies the exclusive rights over international communications via orbiting space vehicles. There seemed to be no justification for this giveaway beyond a mystical belief in the inferiority of government enterprise to private enterprise--in this case a private venture consisting solely of the expectation of huge profits, but without the trouble-some details of capital investment, risk, or that free competition...