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Needed: Faster Tape. The current stock ticker, in operation since 1930, can record 80 to 85 sales a minute. At present, sales sometimes run as high as 150 a minute. The ticker prints the transactions horizontally on a ¾-in. tape, giving the issue symbols on the top line, the volume and price on the bottom line, as follows...
Opening nights of CRIMSON competitions are rather like Mad Hatter tea parties, except, of course, that yards and yards of AP ticker substitute for tea and goodies. Actually, that's a bad metaphor, because it doesn't really describe the comforting and comfortable kind of beery chaos which reigns in the newsroom...
Stevenson did not have to be told what the unexpected business was-the news ticker had told of it an hour earlier. A battered corpse lay buried at the bottom of a secret grave thousands of miles away in the desolate eastern Congo bush. Patrice Lumumba, ex-beer salesman, ex-embezzler, ex-Premier, was dead. Russia was obviously preparing to make the most of it, and Stevenson quickly got on the telephone to tell Washington to brace itself for the onslaught...
...York margin at more than half a million votes, she looked wide-eyed and uncertain: "Really? That's important, isn't it? How nice.'' And when her political duties are over, Jackie shucks her toga with obvious relief. Last October, after the tumultuous ticker-tape parade through Manhattan, she whipped off her reversible coat, turned it inside out and went off, like a girl just out of school, with her friend and neighbor, Artist William Walton, to look at avant-garde paintings in the Tibor de Nagy Gallery...
...Another four sets were placed next to each other in an adjoining room; here also were the pastel phones giving direct access to long distance operators that have been almost a trademark of the Kennedy press facilities this year. Another room contained Western Union headquarters, while an Associated Press ticker downstairs hammered out the special election wire. Sandwiches, donuts, coffee and soft drinks (and, early Wednesday morning, hard liquor) were available at the extreme rear of the hall; behind a platform where television, newsreel and still cameras were mounted...