Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trail in Laos. This innocent-looking domestic scene is of particular interest to U.S. reconnaissance pilots, who daily "go around the corner"-their lingo for their semisecret flights over neutral Laos-to check on the lady's wash. When no laundry is on the line, that is a signal from the sharp-eyed housekeeper that North Vietnamese troops or trucks are moving near by. Within minutes after the pilots notice that the wash is not out, U.S. planes are raining bombs down upon the Communists...
...Signal Oil & Gas Co., the Los Angeles-based giant (1966 sales: $1 billion) that aims to strike it rich away from the oilfields as well as in them, added Mack Trucks Inc. to a list of holdings that already includes 48% of American President Lines and Garrett Corp., a manufacturer of aerospace components. Signal lost out in a bid for ailing Douglas Aircraft last winter, but the Allentown, Pa., truckmaker was only too glad to get under Signal's rich corporate umbrella. Despite record sales ($412 million in 1966), Mack has been desperately short of capital needed to expand...
...dealers about London when it stopped, as usual, to drop a bag of silver worth $14 at a small printing shop on Bowling Green Lane. As the guard who delivered the silver bag was walking back to his truck, he was hit from behind. Hearing the usual two-knock signal, his companions opened the roll-up door in the back. Instantly, their eyes were blinded by a liquid squirted from a gas gun. "It was so fast we didn't have a chance. We couldn't even get to our coshes [billy clubs]," said one guard. Blindfolded, hands...
...city licenses all the pushcart men. Many years ago, almost anyone could get a license. Friday morning before the market opened, the vendors would line up at the base of Faneuil Hall (just across Dock Square). At a signal they would race across the Square with their pushcarts, trying to get to the best sites on Blackstone Street. Words and sometimes assorted vegetables, were exchanged in the competition. After a few carts, tomatoes and apples went spinning across the pavement, the City decided to license only a fixed number of "regulars." They occupy assigned sites on Blackstone Street until they...
...duck at this stage of the game-but if he does, he will face the toughest opponent of his career in Barry Goldwater. Though he has the unquestioned advantages of seniority and more than a little edge in sentiment (he can still recall seeing Geronimo's hostile Apache signal fires glinting from the hills), Hayden would be 97 when the term expired, and might have some difficulty appealing to the thousands of young, newly arrived Arizonans. Last week, however, the view was to the past rather than the future, and few could help but marvel...