Word: wired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teen-ager with rock or rifle or a tactless and brutal policeman cannot still ignite a mob in any ghetto. But rioting is no longer the black community's instant, reflex response. Through a new alchemy of awareness, the word has passed on what Malcolm X called "the wire," the black grapevine: "Cool it." The internal sanctions of the ghetto now work against spontaneous combustion...
Under the High Wire. Older businessmen-who grew up in the Depression, fought in World War II and went to college on the G.I. Bill-have to run hard to keep up. "Many older men feel that techniques have passed them by," says Dr. Russell Cansler, director of placement at North western's Graduate School of Business Administration. "They see promotions and raises they want going to men ten or 15 years their junior." In an effort to acquire the new computer-oriented management skills that are being so highly rewarded, older executives are enrolling in business school. More...
...BOLD ACCENT must go wire to wire...
...word spread through the newsroom like a FLASH-IMMEDIATE wire bulletin. What was up, one afternoon last week, was a single sheet of white paper, thumbtacked to The New York Times's third-floor notice board and signed by Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, announcing a shake-up among top Times editors. Highlights of the memo: - "James Reston, Executive Editor, has been elected a Vice President with primary responsibility in the areas of news coverage. He will return to Washington and will continue his three-times-a-week column from there." - "Clifton Daniel, Managing Editor, will become Associate Editor...
SIXTH--LAST CURTAIN should come off the pace to catch the speed horses at the wire...