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...suite in town guarded by armed, uniformed detectives was operated by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President on the sixth floor of the Fontainebleau's new south wing. There, in three adjoining rooms, the G.O.P. set up an observation post with seven telephone lines, an A.P. ticker, a supply of liquor, hors d'oeuvres, and 18 uniformed "Nixonettes." Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and Colorado Governor John Love came by to keep tab on the opposition. So did some Democrats, mostly Wallace supporters. After two days of operation, the hired guards changed into more casual clothes, giving...
Perhaps the most jarring postflight experience befell Armstrong's fellow moon walker, Buzz Aldrin. Unprepared for the hectic demands on his life (ticker-tape parades, speeches, world tours), Aldrin was on the way to "a good, old-fashioned American nervous breakdown," turned to psychiatric treatment, and resigned from NASA. Now writing his autobiography, to be called Return to Earth, he talks candidly about his illness. He has also become an ingratiating salesman on TV commercials...
...Dinosaur Fund succeeds as well as anything in print at conveying the atmosphere of that strange world where life is infused into new fortunes with a few beats of the stock ticker. It is a man's world. It is a world of immense wealth, of private airplanes equipped with tiled showers and Roman baths in inner offices, all described with goggle-eyed wonder. The book's main plot is a conflict in investment strategy between Milliken, who thinks that prices can go only up, and his boss, Choate Cavendish, who lives for the day when such whippersnappers...
...protect its reputation for accuracy, RFE's broadcasts, if anything, err on the side of caution. When reports of Alexander Dubcek's ouster first came from Prague over a Western news ticker, RFE waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe...
...named Paul Williams who headed up the Western Union office in Los Angeles. But he wouldn't run a private line out for me -wouldn't break regulations. So I rented an office on Figueroa, near Seventh, where there was a line, and had a ticker-tape installed there ... I drove down there in the middle of the night and laid this whole thing from Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles along the trolley power line to my room at the Ambassador Hotel . . . But I got the terminals reversed, and this immediately showed up on the Western Union Board...