Word: drumfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a small, drum-shaped satellite was maneuvered into orbit 22,300 miles above the equator last week, a new era in communications, and communications-industry competition, began. The "bird," called Westar I, is the U.S.'s first commercial domestic satellite,* and the first of two to be launched by Western Union. By late summer, Westar will bounce back to receiving stations on earth such signals as twelve separate color television programs or up to 14, 000 private-line telephone calls-and charge bargain rates for the service...
...desire to be buried under a simple headstone in a tiny village was strikingly similar to the arrangements Charles de Gaulle requested for himself. It was perhaps appropriate that in death, as in much of his life, Pompidou marched to the beat of the general's drum. He was De Gaulle's chosen heir, and though he lacked the general's grandeur and electrifying sense of history, Pompidou took De Gaulle's inspiration and institutionalized it. He kept alive the ideals of a movement-a strong executive authority, a sense of social order, a heightened feeling...
...Italy, where he compiles a graphic lexicon of the language of gesture ("Sicilians take the Fifth by raising their chins slowly... Fondle the back of your ear and somebody's a pederast.") Venturing even further afield, he travels to the Congo for a first-hand encounter with African drum language, only to have his experimental message. "Notre Dame has the best team of all," emerge back into English as "The lady if ever she had a weak body, now she has strong...
Though his Administration has been laggard in providing aid for the veterans, President Nixon showed that at least he appreciates them. Said the Commander in Chief in a drum-thumping speech at the National War College: "Because they saw it through, because they did not quit, we were able to negotiate an honorable end to the war at the conference table, which would not have been possible had they not served with distinction and courage to the end."Many Vietvets, however, are now concerned about goals closer to home. A veterans' lobbyist later complained that Nixon "didn...
When Babe Ruth hit his 714th and final home run on May 25, 1935, there was no swarm of reporters and photographers standing by to engulf him as he crossed home plate, no special promotional drum rolls. The 10,000 fans in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field that Saturday afternoon gave the aging hero Ruth a polite cheer-it was his third home run of the game-and let him trot quietly into the dugout and baseball history...