Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be installed only by drilling through a wall from the next room. Slimmed to insect size by transistors and printed circuits, today's microphones can be tucked into a sofa or buried inches deep in walls or floor. With battery-powered transmitters no bigger than a cigarette pack, the new gadgets need no outside power source and can eavesdrop for two whole years without attention. In one East European capital, a foreign service officer first learned that his living room was bugged when a U.S. embassy clerk telephoned to report verbatim what he had been saying -two miles...
...military coup had thrown the Menderes government out of power in May 1960. Reportedly, some Menderes supporters in rural areas campaigned for "no" votes by telling credulous peasants that a "yes" would bring to power an infidel named "Mister Referendum." who would close mosques, substitute Christianity for Islam, and pack their women off to brothels...
...originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from San Francisco, makes backpacking trips into the Yosemite, bearing a 35-lb. pack, catching trout for food, and using a passing stream as his refrigerator. He likes to arrive in the hills at nightfall, sleeping out before setting forth in the morning, as the easiest way to acclimatize himself to the altitude. Denver Bureau Chief Barron Beshoar, a veteran camper, made...
...Diego, leggy (39 in. from hipbone to toe) Juliet Prowse, 24, obliquely discussed her durable relationship with Frank Sinatra. Although allowing that he might consider her "dingaling" and perhaps had "flipped," the sinuous dancer was hardly ready to spill the banns. In the argot of the Rat Pack, explained she, "flip" means "to like someone an awful lot but not necessarily to fall in love. It's more like an urge...
...solemn may try to see political satire in this jape. It is true that one of a pack of thieves says, "At least we're not nationalized yet," and an official-looking sign in a workingwomen's boardinghouse reads, "Chastity is the Best Policy! Don't See Your Husband." But the only real politics in this film is lunatic anarchy. Everyone mugs like mad, and if a sight gag falls flat, there is another along in ten seconds. It all serves as a reminder that the early-Hollywood, dead-run comedy used to be awfully funny...