Word: telexing
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...London, Hong Kong and Singapore, contacting his team almost instantly to find out who is buying, where and why. Such intelligence enables the bank to be extremely precise in its own actions. Says Schreiber: "Even after we submit written bids, we usually adjust them by a few cents via Telex right down to the deadline." At the U.S. Treasury auction last month, Dresdner's bid came in just high enough to win, and a Swiss competitor's offer failed by only 20? per oz. One clear moral: private investors who hope to benefit from the bullion boom will...
...wife Rosalynn, some White House aides and a bunch of security guards toting briefcases that concealed shotguns and automatic weapons. Aboard the special car, a red curtain separated Carter and his wife from the reporters in the rear. Behind other red curtains, Army communications specialists manned telephones and telex links that kept the President in touch with the White House. A four-car pilot train ran ahead of the Metroliner so that Secret Service men could check the tracks, and three helicopters hovered watchfully overhead...
...keep ahead of the uncertainties brought on by supply interruptions, Exxon uses a pair of IBM 3033 computers that are constantly updated with details that show, among other things, where the entire Exxon fleet is at any moment, and toward what ports the ships are headed. Sometimes the telex traffic originated by the so-called LOGICS system takes on real drama. Recently, when LOGICS operators learned that an Exxon tanker was due to call at the Colombian port of Buenaventura, where marauders in small boats are common at night, a message was quickly dispatched to the ship's master: "Beware...
...Cubans, a second time from the company that insured the ship. When the freighter was at sea, Fessler and a confederate are said to have marched into the Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto. All sorts of papers were shown verifying that the coffee was on its way: a telex from the ship's captain, complete invoices, bills of lading, inspection receipts. Following the instructions of Cuba's brokers, the bank promptly disbursed the $8.7 million as Fessler directed...
...between singular men. In time, Peregrine becomes a barrister and then a curmudgeonly journalist whose essays excoriate the modern world. Benedick becomes an electronic harpsichordist and marries a difficult woman named Joanna, who speaks eight or ten languages and runs what appears to be an armaments brokerage from a telex machine in their Wiltshire house. When Joanna restlessly and ruthlessly divorces Benedick, the two brothers push on to Istanbul. There Peregrine tries to be a poet. Benedick settles in as his secretary. But events soon separate them, and Peregrine takes up with Joanna. Finally, Benedick rejoins the pair...