Word: telegraphs
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...latest caper in Canadian colleges is bed pushing. Born at the University of Rhodesia, and perfected-as was last year's college craze, phone-booth stacking -at South Africa's University of Natal, it spread over some sort of Commonwealth bush telegraph. Last week Canadian college students from Nova Scotia to British Columbia were indefatigably mounting beds on wheels and pushing them over highways, prairies and frozen lakes. The current world's record of 1,000 continuous miles is claimed by a team from Ontario's Queens University, which kept its Simmons rolling day and night...
When an Iranian wants to be safe from the police, he reverts to an old custom called bast, or asylum. The recognized sanctuaries are Parliament buildings, mosques, the royal palace and stables, and, curiously enough, telegraph offices. As Iran last week reeled through its second national election in seven months, citizens were scampering in all directions seeking bast...
...date-palmed Borazjan, workers closed down the bazaar in a strike against election irregularities. In arid Shahabad, citizens who had found bast in a telegraph office were wiring protests to the Shah. Others contemptuously voted for the Shah's three-month-old son, Crown Prince Reza. Street battles in Teheran between police and antigovernment demonstrators ended with 18 hurt and 80 arrested. The cops boldly hurled tear-gas grenades at one street-corner group and then apologized on learning that they were waiting...
Buying has been strong in oils, coppers, food, papers, machinery and steel. Some of the blue chips have taken part in the rise; IBM has jumped from 592 to 639 in a month, and American Telephone & Telegraph has gone from 104 to 113⅞. But as a group, the blue chips still draw a wary glance from many investors. "They do not provide protection against the kind of cost-push inflation we have been having," says Bradbury K. Thurlow, vice president of Winslow, Cohu & Stetson, "and they are selling at inflated price-earnings ratios, which imply a future growth potential...
...city's civic life, says he reads the Times of London to keep up with international news. The American daily newspaper is dying at an impressive rate: 76 papers have gone out of existence in the past five years, with three major dailies--the Cleveland News, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and Detroit Times--and nine smaller papers folding in the past year...