Word: telexed
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...streets is not as apparent as in other socialist countries." Cuban authorities went out of their way to smooth the visit of Schecter and his colleagues, allowing the newsmen to fly in directly from Miami despite the absence of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations and providing them with special telex facilities. The citizen on the street proved equally genial. "On a walking tour of Havana I stopped for a beer at an open-air café, and two carpenters insisted on treating me. When I asked a housewife buying her husband's weekly ration of two cigars how much...
...Rourke himself protested that O'Connor had not, in fact, forbidden him to baptize the child "under holy obedience" -the form of order usually used in grave matters. Moreover, he said, the dismissal procedures amounted to "almost a trial by Telex," and he intends to appeal the decision to the Vatican. Meantime, he remains a priest-if not a Jesuit-in good standing, though he must now find a bishop who will authorize him to exercise his priestly functions publicly...
...unable to file their stories. Prager managed to phone Marmon at Efty's apartment to convey eyewitness accounts of the fighting. Marmon, in turn, though periodically distracted by "soldiers with a weird assortment of weapons drifting into the house," fed Prager's reports into Efty's telex machine - the only line out of Nicosia then available to journalists...
Today the con game is bigger, more complex and even respectable. The jet liner and the telex cable have replaced the side-wheeler and the raft. Even the suckers are more impressive, as Equity Funding stockholders and the recent star-studded list of unfortunate Home-Stake oil-drilling investors has indicated. Yet there is still no first-class novel of contemporary American business. Perhaps it is because those who know the most about the subject are satisfied to be putting their creative talents to more profitable...
...this century, the art of postponement had been virtually a monopoly of the military ("Hurry up and wait"), diplomacy and the law. In former times, a British proconsul faced with a native uprising could comfortably ruminate about the situation with Singapore Sling in hand. Blessedly, he had no nattering Telex to order in machine guns and fresh troops. A U.S. general as late as World War II could agree with his enemy counterpart to take a sporting day off, loot the villagers' chickens and wine and go back to battle a day later. Lawyers are among the world...