Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN the bombing-halt negotiations neared the final stage, Washington officials categorically refused to give interviews and, in some cases, even to take phone calls. For that matter, all but a select few had no firsthand knowledge of the frenetic, hyper-secret maneuverings. Said one participant: "Fewer men are fully clued into these contacts than were involved in the Cuba missile crisis...
Last Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. the owner of the store, a short, fat, balding man with glasses, stepped out for lunch. A few minutes later the phone rang. A woman answered it, "Hello, Frederick Douglas Book Store. May I help you?" The woman wore an olive green skirt, a yellow pullover, and a blue and green striped jacket. She was Charlene Mitchell, 38 years old, black, and candidate of the Communist party for President...
...Madrid I covered a Jackie-and-Garrigues scare; when I was in London it was a Harlech scare." Now some headline writer seemed to be marrying Jackie off to Aristotle Onassis. Though the story sounded dubious, Scott was cautious enough to check it out. Soon he was on the phone to New York alerting the editors to this week's late-breaking cover story...
Within hours, TIME correspondents were going after the story in force. And in a year that has seen more than its share of grim news, their assignment offered a pleasant, if hectic, change of pace. A quick phone call to Rome sent Bureau Chief Jim Bell flying off to Athens. There, with the help of our stringer Mario Modiano, Bell chartered the only plane at the airport that was not controlled by either Onassis or the Greek government. He was taken for a look at Onassis' private island of Skorpios, and he is still frightened. "The pilot passed...
Steven Imhoff's movie, about a collect phone call to Lyndon Johnson, and Kevin Rafferty's, romantically entitled Balls, were the wildest of the lot. Imhoff's movie sets a sound track of himself making his collect call on top of a mad melee of still photographs and film clips punctuated by blanks on the screen. The film wheels on crazily in visual free association above the voices of the cool boy on the phone, the confused operator, and the indignant presidential receptionist...