Word: telexes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...complicate matters further, virtually all Soviet international telephone communications went out of service at week's end. The apparent reason, according to experts at American Telephone and Telegraph Co., was the breakdown of a Moscow computer that handles international calls. Although all telex lines and a few phone links continued to function sporadically, most Muscovites trying to reach an international operator were told brusquely to "please call later." Communications eventually were restored, but in rumor-rife Moscow, the event was unusual enough to prompt immediate speculation that a change of leadership, possibly involving ailing President Leonid Brezhnev...
...hotel's twelve-room Royal Suite, where Jimmy Carter and a dozen Secret Service men spent two days last spring as guests of French industrialists, runs around $5,000 a night at the present favorable rate of exchange. It has a private rooftop garden, bulletproof windows, private telex machines, Reuters and Agence France-Presse news bulletins, an electronic device that guarantees the phones are not bugged, dining and conference chambers, and a bar at the entrance to each living room. The Thousand and One Nights Suite, a triplex with a chic little swimming pool, costs $1,455 a night...
...putting as the disease itself. A TIME reporter in the South had to fight the reluctance of conservative Western Union operators in Mississippi to transmit her reports. They said they found the material distasteful. Indeed, the transmission of the files was delayed until the arrival of a younger telex operator, to whom the reporting seemed neither repugnant nor shocking. Art Director Rudy Hoglund noticed the reluctance of some professional models, worried about their image, to pose for TIME'S cover-normally not the kind of booking New York City models spurn. They feared that readers, after seeing them...
Three hours after the Hyde Park blast, a terse and chilling telex message arrived in the offices of several newspapers in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast. Said the cable: "The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for today's bomb attack on members of the Household Cavalry. The Irish people have sovereign and national rights which no occupation force can put down." The I.R.A. action was the most dramatic on British soil since last October, when two persons were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since...
...Beirut, but the Israelis know that words, however eloquent, lack the emo tional impact of pictures of people grabbing at stones and clearing rubble to find a human leg." Another explanation: most print reporters in Beirut can file directly to their newspapers in the U.S., over standard international telex lines, without going through Israeli authorities...