Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only time the ammunition is touched by human hands is when it is loaded into the automatic hoist. Deep in the bowels of the ship, Fire Controlman Second Class Jim Fagan of Miami holds the portable trigger in his hand, nonchalantly squeezing the lever when he gets the signal over his headphones. "I don't feel like I'm part of this war," says one sailor. "I never see what we're shooting at, or whether it does any good...
...satire Modern Times (1936) had galled industrialists. When the dehumanized Charlie went crazy-when he stepped from the factory trying to tighten the foreman's nose, fire hydrants, the buttons on women's dresses-big-business executives took the gestures personally. When the Tramp waved a danger signal at a truck driver and was arrested by the police for inciting crowds with a Red flag-well, that was ridiculing authority, wasn't it? Explained Chaplin: "I was only poking fun at the general confusion from which we are all suffering." The businessmen knew better; the Tramp...
...point had three birth certificates prepared with different names: Alsace Lorraine, Roberta and Adele Fournier. She does not know how she wound up with the name Dita. The family moved to Fort Monmouth, N.J., where, she claims, her father was so important in helping build up the Signal Corps that his photo was prominently displayed. "He built the goddam place," she says. "But when it got big, some son of a bitch took Dad's picture down...
Militarily, Cambodia has become a doormat for Indochina's warring forces. In its eastern provinces, 10,000 ARVN troops were cautiously probing the sanctuaries where elements of three North Vietnamese divisions are believed to be waiting for the signal to open their long-awaited dry-season offensive in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist units deeper inside Cambodia opened their own offensive. In midweek, a force of Communist artillerymen, perhaps no more than 200 strong, struck the capital with a devastating, 90-minute rocket and mortar barrage...
...very few great individuals we have in this age of mass leveling," says Vallone. But how can he portray the warm friends and sulfurous enemies in La Callas' tumultuous private life? "That is a very delicate matter," sighs Vallone. "Nearly all of them are of signal notoriety...