Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barry Hillenbrand: As I went through the tiny village of Som Soui astride Highway 13, the people were returning to rebuild their houses. Government troops had blasted the village to drive out the Communists. On the road were the bodies of 14 dead Communists, one with a barbed-wire noose around his neck. The cease-fire has been unlucky for Som Soui. One villager told me that prior to the cease-fire talk in October the village had never been fired upon...
...Ninh city, a collection of villages, a nervous man twisted bailing wire in his hard hands as he explained how the cease-fire had destroyed his home. The V.C. planted flags along the front of his house, and in the battle that followed, the house lost all its walls...
...Tethered mines will be cut from their cables by a severing wire pulled along by a low-flying helicopter. The freed mines will then float to the surface, where they can be harmlessly detonated by gunfire...
SINCE the cloth-and-piano-wire beginnings of commercial air travel, the men who run the industry have put their faith-and their money-into the forward advances of technology. Nowhere has that faith been stronger than at Pan American World Airways, which was first in the air with multi-engine planes in 1927, four-engine flying boats in 1931, Boeing 707 jets in 1958 and jumbo jets in 1970. For years, British and French aircraft builders have been counting on Pan Am to lead other airlines in a competitive scramble for the newest advance, the supersonic Concorde, which cruises...
Like most pieces of art, either driven or stationary, the new cars have provoked a great deal of discussion. Paige's phallic "Dickmobile" is perhaps the most controversial. Built on a 1954 Hillman Minx chassis, the head of "The Dickmobile" is 18 gauge steel stretched over a pencil wire frame, while the body of the car is molded fiberglass. The entire vehicle is painted in various shades of pink, except the purple exhaust columns that run along the sides, and the rear of the car that is painted a pubic hair black. The plush interior of the car is upholstered...