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...police had arrested 500 youngsters, and the local jail was as tightly packed as the motels and automobiles. When 72 of the ringleaders received jail terms and a dozen others were awaiting arraignment, the students became calmer and more cautious, and order returned to the streets. Telephone and telegraph facilities were strained to the limit, with messages from students to parents, and parents to city officials. Most were angry, but one father told the police: "Keep the damn fool in jail. I'll be down in three days...
UNIFIED SPACE PROGRAM for a satellite communications system may be authorized by FCC, A.T. & T., RCA, G.E. and International Telephone & Telegraph want to experiment, but FCC is investigating whether they should form a combine...
...only the usual hard core of empire tub thumpers but an important moderate bloc as well, introduced a motion in Commons urging Macleod to go slow. The right wing was furious at Macleod and hinted that he might be forced to resign. Snapped Columnist Peregrine Worsthorne in the Sunday Telegraph: "He actually seems to be enjoying the job of presiding over the dissolution of the British Empire...
...contrasts suddenly seemed to disappear. At one point it seemed to listeners that the elder Oistrakh had the more penetrating, his son the more silvery, tone; but when the same passage recurred in the concerto, the two violinists seemed to have swapped tone colors and styles. Said the Daily Telegraph's David Cooper: "The two play not simply as one mind, but as one instrument." The Oistrakhs agreed. Said Igor: "We don't know or feel differences or similarities that others see in our work. When we play together, we are not father and son. We are musicians...
...SHARE was price set by American Telephone & Telegraph for stockholders to purchase additional common shares, selling around $113, at the rate of one for every 20 owned. The offering will raise a total of $965,350,000, largest corporate money-raising effort in history. A. T. & T. 1960 earnings hit a record $5.53 per share...