Scrapbook 3: New Telstar link 'loud and clear'

New Telstar link ‘loud and clear’

Britain’s first link-up with the Pacific coast of America via Telstar was made yesterday with reception “loud and clear.”

The editor of the Cornish weekly newspaper The Falmouth Packet exchanged news in a 6,000-mile, 13½-minute phone talk with a reporter on the Oregonian, a Portland, Oregon, newspaper.