Word: bug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things that photographs miss. Other snoopers are loaded with electronic black boxes" that can record every electronic signal emanating from Cuba-from mambo music to messages for Moscow. No ground-based radar can search the sky without being recorded. Even hand-carried walkie-talkies can be heard by the bug ears...
...three racing brothers (the others: Vernon, 39, and Harold, 50), Stanley Dancer drove his first sulky at 17 at New Jersey's back-country Freehold Raceway. He wore borrowed silks, splurged $200 of 4-H Club prize money on a filly pacer, and lost the race. But the bug was there-and within five years, the man who loaned him the racing outfit was working for Dancer...
Colonel William E. Byrd, the colonial ancestor of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, Byrd emerged bug-bitten almost to death (the Dismal Swamp's yellow fly, they still say, will politely lift a man's hat from his head so as to get a better bite at his ears). The swamp, straddling the Virginia-North Carolina border, just across the James River Bay from Norfolk, was nothing better than a "filthy bogg," he wrote. Even birds...
...billion altogether, went to General Dynamics. It will pass on an as yet undetermined amount of work to its ally in the competition. Grumman Aircraft. Fast-rising Grumman thus bagged its second major contract within a month, having earlier won a $350 million order for the LEM moon "bug" (TIME...
...plan is for LEM to be lofted into lunar orbit along with the main Apollo spaceship, then be detached to carry two of the three Apollo spacemen to the moon's surface (TIME cover, Aug. 10). The bug, equipped with its own landing and take-off engines, will rendezvous later with the orbiting mother craft...