Word: telegraphing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Telegraph Poles & Tin. Partly because of its long postwar austerity, when most of its automobiles were made for foreign markets. Britain was one of the slowest of Western industrial nations to discover the mixed blessings of the age of the Common Motorist. Even yet. there is only one six-lane British superhighway-the London-to-Birmingham M1. And in traffic-congested London, a race between a sports car and a sedan chair staged last week by the magazine Lilliput ended in a win for the sedan chair...
...Scottish border, are almost indistinguishable from the outskirts of Southampton 400 miles away, and along the highways between the two cities, William Blake's "green & pleasant land" of 150 years ago has been transformed into latter-day Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telegraph poles and tin." All told, more than 40% of the British population lives in seven monstrous conurbations surrounding London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow...
...Hugh Carleton Greene, 49, brother of Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene, took over as director general of the British Broadcasting Corp., replacing 60-year-old Sir Ian Jacob. Going from Oxford to Fleet Street in 1933, Carleton Greene was a Daily Telegraph correspondent until 1940, when he joined BBC to wage psychological warfare. BBC staffers are confident that their new 6½ ft. "D.G." is the man to hold up the BBC side in 1964, when the BBC's charter and the mandate of the ITV commercial network both expire...
...Telephone and communications expenditures by the Bell System in 1960 will be at least $2¼ billion and "maybe more," said Frederick R. Kappel, president of American Telephone & Telegraph...