Word: telexing
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...player seeks to control and exploit all the countries belonging to the same color group-Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, or Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. Aside from the roll of the dice, advances or reverses occur when the would-be oil potentate lands on the space marked "Telex," where a message may order him to return to the Geneva Airport-equivalent to Monopoly's "Go" position-notify him of a crippling tanker strike or tell him to skip ahead to be photographed for a TIME cover...
...world. Only last week did the P.R.G. finally permit cables to go directly to Hong Kong rather than through Hanoi, thereby reducing the time it takes for dispatches to reach Western countries from one to two days down to about three hours. The P.R.G. still does not allow direct telex, telephone, radiophoto or film links with Western countries, though it has permitted reporters from Cuba and Eastern Europe to fly to Hanoi with material that they have presumably relayed home and to the West. In recent days, the P.R.G. has stopped picture-taking of troops and street scenes, arresting...
...besieged by strangers seeking help to get out of Saigon. "My daughter worked here during Tet," one old woman told the manager of a news bureau as she held up a snapshot of the girl. "Can you help me?" A CBS correspondent trying to reach Hong Kong by telex kept typing: "Can you get me Hong Kong?" The Vietnamese operator down the street kept tapping back...
...News Correspondent Lee Rudakewych and CBS News Stringer Denis Cameron, 44, who stayed behind in a largely futile attempt to organize an airlift of 400 Cambodian orphans. Rudakewych used the erratic Associated Press telex line to Hong Kong to tell his editors that he had malaria but was safe. Cameron cabled CBS: "The situation here is unclear and contradictory. Fresh rumors keep arriving to fuel the worry and apprehension. We return regularly to the hotel to compare rumors and feel some small consolation in our togetherness...
...postwar lows, the mutual funds and other big investors were looking for some excuse to begin buying in earnest. That excuse seemed to come from a federal court in Denver; it reversed a lower court's order that IBM had to pay $259.5 million in antitrust damages to Telex Corp. Says Robert Stovall, director of investment policy at Reynolds Securities Inc.: "This was the first time in a while that any federal institution has come out with a decision that 'big is not bad.' " IBM, which had been down 36% from its 1974 high...