Word: telex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such questions, no answers were forthcoming, for U.S. public relations officers fell silent after some initial muttering about the plane going astray "in bad weather." Later, it was suggested that the Telex line that was to relay the flight plan was out of order, and the French might have gotten a garbled version. This did not alter the fact that there is a blanket prohibition against foreign air photos of French soil without permission of the government; even when the U.S. wanted photos of the American cemetery at Ste.-Mère-Eglise last year, it had to get approval...
...have leased only one of the six channels; the Associated Press and United Press International are among those who will be using the other five), our new capability out of Saigon adds another facet to a vast communications network that is unique in magazine publishing. Via leased-wire Teletype, Telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities, this network links the TIME-LIFE News Service's 32 bureaus in the U.S. and abroad, whose staff and special correspondents file an average 3,500,000 words a month into the clattering cable room on the 25th floor of the TIME & LIFE Building...
...Africa hands are painfully familiar with the phenomenon known as "Wawa." It stands for West Africa Wins Again, and summarizes the frustrating inability to mesh modern methods and ancient habits. Wawa crops up at cable offices, where either the Telex or the telegrapher are inevitably out. It turns up at the airport, where engines, customs officials or both are missing just when someone is desperately in need of a flight. Wawa hovers miasmatically in hotel rooms, turning a once placid shower into a veritable Victoria Falls, or switches telephone calls from one trunk line to another. Africa is progressing...
...newsroom of West Deutsche Rundfunk, a radio station in Cologne. This meant fresh copy from the telegraph office, and the late-shift operator dutifully bestirred himself to see what was coming in. The message he read jolted him down to his half soles. TODAY, LATE IN AFTERNOON, announced Telex No. 2, FIRST MINISTER OF U.S.S.R. KHRUSHCHEV DIED SURPRISINGLY AT 20:19 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME OF HEPHOCAPALYTIROSISES. The message was signed TASS/ASAHI BONN-an unusual signature apparently signifying that the information had come from Tass, the Russian news agency, and had been picked up by a Bonn correspondent for Tokyo...
...halting English, a Moslem telegraph operator in the Middle East tapped out on the telex: "Is it correct Kennedy killed pis?" When New York replied, "Yes, an hour ago," the Moslem signed off, "How sorrowful...