Word: telex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vienna one day last week a Telex machine, ominously silent for almost a week, suddenly sprang to life. Slowly and with much stuttering an unknown keyboard operator in Budapest hammered out the following message...
That night the Telex in Vienna spelled out a broken message...
...right to strike again if he failed in his promise. The question was whether the workers, like the miners, who threatened to flood the pits rather than accept Kadar, would heed the bidding of their committee or Grubennyik's threat. If they did not, said the unknown Telex operator, the only thing left to the Soviet leaders was to bring Nagy back. Clattered irrepressible Budapest's irrepressible ghostwriter...
Communications were sped up and some hard production problems were licked in 1952. New direct radio-teletype circuits, called Telex, were installed between New York City and London, New York and Paris, and London and Paris. TIME's pre-convention issue, for which the final writing and editing was finished on Monday night, went on sale in Chicago on Tuesday morning, in time for delegates to pick up copies which described what they had done the evening before...