Word: squawking
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...tiny specks trailing wispy black contrails streaked across the brilliant azure sky. "You guys are the last guys of the war!" exclaimed an excited voice from the squawk box in a truck parked at the edge of the runway. Within 30 seconds, the two A-7D Corsair fighter-bombers were touching down at this air-base set on a bucolic plateau of waving green grass some 140 miles northeast of Bangkok and 290 miles from Phnom-Penh. Skipping onto the concrete strip amid puffs of blue smoke, the planes taxied over to ground personnel for a routine "disarming" check. Then...
Developed by Castagna Electronics of Brooklyn, N.Y., the squawk box will sell for about $100. A. Frederick Greenberg, president of Castagna, is counting on fervid competition among the tobacco companies to equip as many cigarette machines as possible with ACMRUs that will broadcast messages. After all, vending machines dispense an average of 22 competing brands. Greenberg says that ACMRU is aimed at the 250,000 vending machines in "prime high-traffic areas"-mostly offices, factories and bars. The messages could be audible at up to 20 ft. but Greenberg does not think that they will be annoying. "Well," he says...
...There will be a lecture on blood and fluid replacement in the mess hall," booms the squawk box, which becomes in time one of the film's most important characters. At intervals it announces the Friday-night movie-always a World War II film-by tonelessly chanting ancient ad campaigns: "The Glory Brigade . . . Uncle Sam's combat engineers showing the world a new way to fight, using bulldozers like bazookas . . . starring Victor Mature." In the closing footage, the last movie announced is "M.A.S.H. . . . follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons snatching laughs and loves between amputations...
...years ago, this room could have passed for Act I, Scene 1 of The Front Page. As in the play, the focus of activity was a raucous poker game among reporters, policemen, bail bondsmen and ambulance-chasing lawyers. Somehow, in the din of police calls crackling over squawk boxes and the clanging of the fire alarm, a reporter would hear a call of a homicide and shout out the address. Whichever newsman had failed to fill his flush would then check the "crisscross," a directory listing telephone numbers by address...
...surprise, Southern congressmen were the first to squawk when Finch first announced the cut-off. Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-Miss.), long-time leader of the Congressional segregation troops, brought up his old proposal to deny the government its fund-cutting power. But Whitten, whose district includes two of the condemned school systems, was not as important a foe as Sen. Strom Thurmond...