Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II, almost everyone knows that the U.S. broke Japan's highest level "Purple Code" before Pearl Harbor. But precious few realize what the breakthrough entailed. The code was based on a rotor system-mazes of wires connecting two or more alphabetic rotors that change ciphers at every punch of a keyboard. The use of two rotors permits 676 different cipher positions; five rotors provide 11,881,376 codes...
AMERICAN PROFILE: MUSIC FROM THE LAND (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Eddy Arnold narrates the saga of country and western music from its humble hillbilly origins to its current popularity across the U.S. Among the performers: Flatt and Scruggs, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Minnie Pearl and John Lowdermilk, plus film clips of Jimmy Rodgers, Tex Ritter and the late Hank Williams...
Back in the days when Truman Capote wore bangs, he wrote a short story called House of Flowers about the ladies of a bordello on a Caribbean island. When he expanded it into a musical comedy in 1954, it fairly swarmed with talent-Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll sang, Geoffrey Holder danced, Balanchine worked on the choreography, Oliver Messel designed the sets, and Harold Arlen turned out a lilting, lyrical musical score. Nonetheless, House of Flowers faded fast...
...black. "The Black Artist must teach the White Eyes their deaths," Jones writes. And when Newark, his birthplace, was aflame with Negro rioting last July, Jones appeared bent on augmenting his words with action. Heading into the eye of the violence, police testified, Jones had concealed a brace of pearl-handled .32-cal. revolvers beneath the dashboard of his green camper bus and under the folds of his multihued African dashike tunic...
...Japanese-bombed railway station in Shanghai, in films of Hitler's armies marching across Europe and scenes of the fall of Corregidor. Until TV showed the funeral of President Kennedy, nothing Americans saw in the newsreels had ever stirred them quite so much as the bombing of Pearl Harbor 26 years...