Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephone. To demonstrate a century of progress, the teen-age descendants of Bell and Watson who re-enacted the historic moment then placed a call that was transmitted between two modern telephones not by electrical current or radio waves but by a beam of light passing through a hair-thin glass fiber. Proclaimed
...make communication by optical wires a reality. One development was the invention in 1960 of the laser, a device capable of generating an intense narrow beam of light that, for all practical purposes, did not diverge. Miniaturized lasers make it possible to couple powerful light beams accurately with hair-fine glass fibers. Another was the perfection, by Corning Glass Works, of a fiber of glass so pure that it could transmit light long distances. The third accomplishment was the devising, by engineers at Bell Labs and elsewhere, of methods of integrating fiber optics into modern telephone systems...
...carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa, domestic politics or Jamaica's national hero, Marcus Garvey...
...give up the latter next season. Last week San Francisco named his successor. He is Holland's Edo de Waart, 34, the orchestra's current principal guest conductor and, since 1967, conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Like Ozawa, De Waart has charm, good looks and lots of hair. He also has the reputation of a solid all-round conductor whose Bartok is as educated as his Mozart. De Waart takes over in the fall of 1977 and will give the San Francisco more of his time than Ozawa does currently-13 or 14 weeks...
...finished high school in Washington D.C., mentions that his stay in Russia had a definite effect upon his political beliefs. "For me, in an almost subconscious sense, it affected my ideas about politics, what it means, and who people really are," he states earnestly, running his fingers through hair that has become curly since his Moscow days. "Experiencing individuals who had totally opposite policial beliefs gave me the impression that politics are totally arbitrary. In other words, there are more fundamental things to people than these political orientations...