Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumania's nationalistic defiauce of the Soviet Union has forced her leaders to inject some freedom into the domestic system--alienated from Russia, they were highly vulnerable to the Czech bug...
Appropriately, the son of the bug is inexpensive to build. An old VW chassis, with its independently suspended four wheels and air-cooled rear engine, provides the basic foundation. The frame is first shortened by 14½ inches-a process that moves the center of gravity back over the rear wheels, where traction is needed, and costs about $50 in a mechanic's shop. Then a lightweight molded fiber-glass body is bolted securely onto the chassis. Scores of small firms across the U.S. are now producing these bodies in a rich assortment of styles and colors and sell...
...time for Captain Cleveland, a midafternoon kiddy show on Cleveland's WKBF-TV. The host, Ventriloquist John Slowey, slipped lavaliere mikes around the necks of his young dummy, "Private Clem," and of the guest of the day. "What do I call you-your highness?" piped the bug-eyed puppet. The guest shook his head, smiled, and replied: "Most people use the name Mr. Mayor." So began the first of a weekly series of appearances by Carl Stokes, the first elected Negro head of a major U.S. city and the most winning on-air mayor for the kids since...
...Cinema Critic Richard Schickel ruffles the image without disrupting the performance. Parents out of sympathy with Disney's too sweet view of life will continue to take their children to his movies anyway, if only to recapture a sense of innocence in their own responses. Nostalgia is a bug not easily shooed...
Carson claimed to be an amateur astronomy bug himself. At the conclusion of his discussion he told Liller, "Once you get into this subject, you leave everybody saying 'What did they just...