Word: telexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lufthansa planes were on the air to Frankfurt only for radio checks. But these checks became more and more frequent as the hours passed: from every 30 minutes to 20, then ten and finally two. Shortly after midnight Frankfurt told the planes: "We have lost all telephone and telex connections. You are our only means of communication. Keep in touch...
...write their reports, the correspondents returned on Thursday to the officially closed, eerily deserted Time-Life Building, where a skeleton staff was working without air conditioning or normal lighting. An emergency generator installed after the '65 blackout was used to run one elevator and the telex machines. Among those on hand were Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who wrote our cover story, and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who wrote an accompanying article on why it all happened. The senior editors for the whole project were Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss. Says Kriss, who wrote our cover stories...
...Never before in history has a country had to introduce electricity, running water, telephones, telex and color television all at the same time...
...even Ambler's skills can make fiscal crimes committed via telex or computer as gripping as older forms of skulduggery. Still, The Siege of the Villa Lipp has more than enough cerebral twists and sophisticated wit to offset its comparative bloodlessness. And Ambler includes sufficient shocks to show that he has not forgotten how to put his horrors before his cartel...
...locale and sometimes climate, language and hemisphere as well. David Aikman probably faces the stiffest challenge at the moment -establishing a new Eastern European bureau in a 100-year-old farmhouse in West Berlin. He calls it "a forced learning process in the simultaneous skills of driver, messenger, clerk, telex operator and office manager." Aikman went to Berlin after four years in Hong Kong. Both cities, he notes, "are outposts of Western enterprise and freedom within the orbit of Communist states...