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...spread of chess fever through TIME'S ranks. Alexandra Mezey, who researched the story, uses a pocket chess set to brush up on her king's side defense during spare moments. Kennedy and Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, recently engaged in a cross-country match via telex with Hillenbrand and other Los Angeles bureau members. After 23 moves, when the West Coast wood pushers' victory seemed assured, they revealed that they had used former U.S. Champion Larry Evans to direct their game. This week, with Hillenbrand already at his next assignment in Saigon, Chess Expert Evans...
...checking. Icelandic Airlines officials in New York kept two seats open on every flight-just in case. But where was he? Meanwhile, carpenters put the finishing touches on the 3,000-seat Sports Hall in Reykjavik. Lighting experts checked and rechecked the lighting. Eight closed-circuit TV cameras, five telex machines, three movie cameras and one huge projector were set up. But where, oh where...
...four key allies-Britain, West Germany and Japan, as well as France-the result was something like a global diplomatic stampede. Governments in Latin America, Asia and even Africa began sounding out their chances of making the list. Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau demanded an invitation by telex -and got the White House O.K. within an hour. Italy's Premier Emilio Colombo also got Nixon's nod. Portugal's Premier Marcello Caetano made the list only because the Azores is Portuguese territory. When Brazil's President Emilio Garrastazu Medici arrived in Washington last week...
Minnie Magazine's technical counterpart is Communications Manager John Striker, who during the past 18 years has helped expand the network of Teletype, telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities that serves Time Inc.; since 1962, he has added Bangkok, Singapore, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi and Beirut to the list of bureaus linked directly by telex with New York. In Saigon on a trouble-shooting mission in 1965, Striker improved world communications with South Viet Nam by opening the first private radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. In 1967, when we sensed the need...
...pools, massively dependent on the mails, sent out three weeks of coupons in advance and had most of the 12 million in hand before the walkout began. Other firms are taking advantage of the fact that 8,000 telephone operators have remained on the job, keeping many phone and telex lines open...