Word: wiredness
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Three years ago in Detroit, Internal Revenue agents wired a federal parolee as a walking electronic eavesdropper. The tax men planted a transmitter in one of the man's cowboy boots and a battery in the other and ran wires up his trouser legs to a microphone-belt buckle.
Feelings are running high. An intense rivalry has developed between the two schools in the last year. At Penn, Psychological warfare, a brutal training program, and a wave of rowing contraptions like "The Wizard," a shell electronically wired to indicate how much strength each oarsman is applying on each stroke...
Viet Nam Wall. In Quang Tri city at week's end, the Marines and the Vietnamese were digging in as for a siege, piling sandbags higher, gouging out foxholes, setting up mines and barbed wire-all on the prudent assumption that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese would soon...
Writer Herman J. Mankiewicz once listened to Cohn brag: "When I'm alone in a projection room, I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's...
Ten days ago, faced with a possible halt in production of the copper and cobalt that account for 50% of his country's revenues, Mobutu swallowed his slogans, signed an agreement for continued operation of the mines with Sociètè Gènèrale des Min...