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...northeastern Mississippi hamlet of Okolona. After graduating from the local black high school, he entered Indiana Central College in Indianapolis and helped support himself by reporting for a local black weekly. A stint in the Army brought him to Washington, where he got a job as a teletypist for the Post. Some months later a sympathetic editor recognized Raspberry's potential as a reporter. He spent four years on civil rights stories. In 1966 he got a chance as a columnist...
Linked by radio to the computer, police in one prowl car simply call off a sampling of passing license numbers. As a teletypist feeds the numbers into the computer, it compares them with the stored list. When it "hits" a wanted number, a bell rings, the number is automatically typed out, and the teletypist radios ahead to a second prowl car parked some 900 ft. down the road. The whole thing takes about 7 sec.-ample time for the second car to swoop on the prey...
...Baseball is over," said a Reuters teletypist to a U.N. staff member in a washroom at Flushing Meadows. "We are all making bets on who wins in the election, and on what ballot. Want to come into the pool...
Crawford got off a letter to Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer demanding Virden's resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden...
...stage, is a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...
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