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...Call Me 'Doctor.' " After a cordial reception in Houston early in the week, the pair zipped off to Chicago. No fewer than a million whooping people jammed curbstones and upper-floor windows and let fly with a blizzard of ticker tape that all but buried McDivitt and White as they rode in a parade down State Street and Michigan Avenue. That over, the astronauts flew to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where each was solemnly awarded a newly created honorary degree -a doctorate of astronautical science. Already both had been nominated by the President for promotion...
...companies -which account for about one-third of all trading-conspicuously sat on their millions and waited for stocks to fall still lower in hopes of scooping up bargains. At midweek individual investors began to unload; larger numbers of 100-share and 200-share transactions danced across the illuminated ticker tape in the stock exchange...
...telephoned Longstreet Hinton, head of the bank's trust department, some ten minutes after the press conference ended and told him to look at the broad ticker tape for something about Texas Gulf," the statement said...
...pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A bluff, hearty farm boy from Indiana, "K.C.," as he liked to be called, was the visionary who built the A.P. into the world's largest news-gathering service: in the 1930s he pioneered the widespread use of the Teletype ticker and the transmission of photos by wire and radio, but made his major contribution by breaking ties with the cartel of European news services that once monopolized overseas stories, instead marshaling his own army of reporters in every corner of the globe...
...time scarcely worth its price of 100; it was a tangle of printer's errors, garbled copy, unscannable headlines and whole pages run upside down. Unable to subscribe to a domestic wire service, the Daily Press limped along with a British import, Reuters Ltd., and the Dow-Jones ticker. It cribbed unabashedly from radio newscasts, engraved photos snapped directly from the TV tube...