Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations: his three-armed Pentagon (July 2, 1951), a camera-faced Amateur Photographer (Nov. 2, 1953), his Mark III Computer...
...failure of the first Air Force test Atlas gave underdog Army spokesmen new confidence in the bitter interservice fracas on U.S. missile dominance. Against Atlas' crash and the Air Force's bug-ridden 1,500-mile Thor missile, the Army touted its own relatively successful 1,500-mile Jupiter (TIME, June 10) and the new low-level-surf ace-to-air Hawk, made its boldest pitch yet for operational control of intermediate-range missilery (1,500 miles) now assigned to the Air Force...
...reluctant to be too specific about their clientele. Nonetheless, in closed-door testimony, the committee learned that some companies employ the devices to listen in on what their employees are saying in rest rooms, company dining rooms and elsewhere in the plant. In Los Angeles some used-car dealers bug rooms where prospective car purchasers are left with their wives; thus the salesman can pick up tips for a new pitch by listening to the family discussion of who likes what and how much the family budget will stand...
Making its first big drive into the U.S.market, Italy's Fiat showed off a line of seven cars in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week. The star: Fiat's tiny bug-shaped Model 600 Standard, which is priced in the U.S. at $1,298. Fiat's other models range from a two-seater 90-m.p.h. sports convertible (U.S. price: $2,498) to a six-seater combination truck-station-wagon ($2,069). The company's U.S. sales goal is 30,000 in 1957 v. about 125 that trickled in last year. Fiat's Manhattan...
...conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded by Elkins when he suspected a doublecross, Turner and Lambert spent three perilous months checking and double-checking the tale of the tapes. In the course of their investigation, they came to be called the Rover Boys by fellow newsmen, Fishface and Bug-Eyes by wary racketmen...