Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite his bad eyes, enlisted in the Navy as a chief boatswain, showed such promise that he was sent to the Naval Academy and commissioned an ensign. Studying logistics, ballistics, navigation and early naval aviation, he suddenly found himself in a world rapidly moving from "the wire to the wireless, the track to the trackless, the visible to the invisible, where more and more could be done with less and less...
...shortly after Captain Zarbis gave the order to abandon ship, the last mayday message was flashed: "S O S from Lakonia. Last time. I cannot stay any more in the wireless cabin. We are leaving the ship. Please help immediately...
...Join the Wireless Club. Join the Music Club. Join the Harvard Band...
...Kennedy, along with some 45 million other Americans, settled down to watch herself in action as guide to CBS's Charles Collingwood on an hour-long White House tour that had been taped a month before. She had refused the services of a CBS makeup artist, wore a wireless microphone around her neck with the pack and battery concealed in the small of her back. Pamela Turnure, her press secretary, had been instructed how to adjust the mike if anything went wrong. Explained Collingwood later: "We couldn't have a technician fiddling with the First Lady...
...Britons wheezing and snuffling through the midwinter vapors, Conductor Sir John Barbirolli, who plans to commute transatlantically between the Houston Symphony and the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, prescribed his podium-tested cold cure: "Put on two pullovers. Stand on a chair. Turn the wireless onto a symphony concert and conduct like mad with a poker or pencil for an hour or so. The cold, I guarantee, will have vanished by the last movement." A comparative youngster in a profession noted for longevity, Sir John, 61, who is inclined to share his wisdom with everybody, freely explained the secret...