Word: spike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working with space-age circuitry and components, engineers have designed new snoopers that are marked improvements on the cigarette-pack transmitters, the spike mikes and the phone taps of a few years ago (TIME, March 6, 1964). Today's bugs rival the imaginative equipment of James Bond novels or the TV fantasies of The Man from U.N.C.L.E...
...Vaudeville Band is just what the name says; no mod rock 'n' roll about it. Its members play ordinary band instruments for the most part, but their music warbles like a combination of Spike Jones, Rudy Vallee and the A & P Gypsies. They sing through megaphones with a quavering quality that is strictly vo-do-de-o-do, wailing about a boy who got dumped by his girl at, by, near or in the Winchester Cathedral...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Spike, 42, Protestant minister, writer (To Be a Man), civil rights leader, and executive chairman of the National Council of Churches' race commission until last December when he became head of the University of Chicago's new doctor-of-ministry program, who helped negotiate last summer's open-housing agreement in Chicago; of massive head injuries when he was bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant in the guest room of a new religious center at Ohio State University; in Columbus...
...They have urged the government to paint all Amsterdam chimneys white to eliminate smoke and soot. They have also printed dynamite recipes for anyone interested in blowing up the burgomaster's house. When Crown Princess Beatrix married West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg last March, they threatened to spike the city's water supply with LSD and stampede the horse-drawn wedding coach with a herd of white mice. Last week in a fourday riot, the Provos proved that they were no laughing matter...
Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet, presumably on Pope Paul's orders, hastened to spike further debate by reasserting the church's traditional teaching. But Zoghbi's jarring plea, says Dominican Theologian Eduard Schillebeeckx, "placed the problem on the table, and that in itself is most important...