Word: telegraphs
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...lead Labor's attack on Britain's Common Market entry. In fact, to Labor's acute embarrassment, the man who becomes spokesman in Gaitskell's place is Deputy Leader George Brown, who is as pro-Common Market as Gaitskell is anti. The conservative Sunday Telegraph paid tribute to Gaitskell by suggesting that "without him, there can be no alternative Government worth the name...
...Saab will perform that role for the Viggen and is now letting out subcontracts to 1,500 other Swedish firms. L. M. Ericsson, Sweden's aggressive manufacturer of telephone equipment, will be responsible for the Viggen's radar, Standard Radio (a Swedish subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph) will make the operations control system, and Svenska Flygmotor will build the souped-up JT8D engine under license from Pratt & Whitney. Slated to reach quantity production in 1969-70, Viggen is expected to keep 10,000 Swedish workmen busy for several years and to pour at least $600 million into...
Gradually, this faith is destroyed. The gifts-money, a stove, earrings-that the tiger has lavished on his mother in the guise of promotion benefits from his job with the telegraph company are revealed to be thefts from the homes of whites. Moreover, he is a male prostitute catering to the jaded tastes of some of the richer white women in town. He hasn't delivered a telegram for years; the last one is on the wall, a fake he made up as a teenager to give his mother the comforting lie that she craved...
...months the bush telegraph of Brunei had flashed the warning that deep inside the Delaware-size oil-rich British protectorate on the north coast of Borneo, a secret rebel army was rehearsing a revolt against the Sultan. Repeatedly, government officials dismissed the story as "another jungle rumor." But last week, in a brief, bloody rebellion, rumor materialized into fact, bringing the threat of a long, nasty guerrilla war in the steaming swamps and forests of the protectorate, and imperiling the prospects of the Malaysian Federation...
...night beexpected, Harvard's portfolio contains a heavy dose of blue chips. American Telephone and Telegraph Co. is the leading corporate holding with $10.5 million in bonds and $11.3 million in stocks...