Word: wired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the Skin. Visiting newsmen at the Cape last week got their basic information on the missile-beat regulars-the half-dozen Florida missile buffs who call themselves bird watchers and profit from their pastime as year-round string correspondents for wire services, magazines, a few dailies and the TV networks. Though Defense Secretary Wilson has long promised to take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches...
...presence of photographers, Mathieu once donned helmet and greaves to paint his The Battle of Bonvines (TIME, March 7, 1955). For Tokyo, what else, but a kimono? Arriving at the base ment of the Shirokiya department store, where a crowd of Japanese were already straining at the wire barrier, Mathieu stripped, donned a loose, flowing blue-and-white yukata. girded himself with a black waist sash, topped off with a red hachimaki wound round his head...
...show), and THE MARCH OF TIME. In her 20-odd Broadway roles, most of them undistinguished, she played everything from a Russian sniper to the Virgin Mary; but when Hollywood cast her as a prostitute in Murders in the Rue Morgue, her father shot off a hot wire: "Have just seen you half-naked on the screen. Come home...
...thing at a time to resume tinkering with electricity. The principle of the telegraph was in his head. After a decade of tinkering Morse achieved what he was after. Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives, he saw the bill passed authorizing him to string some experimental wire between Washington and Baltimore, and 15 months later -on May 24, 1844-he flashed the first message over those 41 miles: WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT...
...press but limited the scope and effectiveness of the reporting job that Dulles finally conceded to be necessary, or at least inevitable. No cameramen-for press, newsreel or TV-will be allowed into China (although reporters may carry cameras). Representation will be limited to the big newspapers, magazines, wire services and broadcasting companies that 1) can now afford to maintain one "fulltime American correspondent overseas" and 2) are prepared to send one staffer for "six months or longer" to China on a resident basis...