Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly did. The hijacker showed her a briefcase that contained two red cylinders and a tangle of wire. He told her calmly that unless his demands were met he intended to blow up the airplane. She immediately relayed the demands to Captain William W. Scott, who in turn radioed Seattle ground control. Northwest President Donald W. Nyrop quickly issued orders to cooperate fully with the hijacker and "do whatever he demands." Airline officials were dispatched to round up the money, and a call went out for the four parachutes...
...crisp November afternoon, Kent State University resembles any other thriving Midwestern campus. Hirsute young men and their long-haired girl friends, identically dressed in blue jeans and peacoats, stroll hand in hand across a snow-covered reach of lawn. Their path is interrupted by bulldozed mud trails, wire fences and spools of cable, the debris of new campus construction...
Brooklyn-born Kriss went to Harvard, where he majored in European history, and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He was a foreign correspondent for the I.N.S. and U.P.I, wire services in Tokyo and served as a telegraph editor for the New York Daily News before joining TIME in 1961. He has written or edited almost every section of the magazine. As a writer in The Nation section he was responsible for some 40 cover stories, and he has edited nearly 30 more as chief of TIME'S World section since mid-1969. Writers for the Review should...
Some still suspect that his glamour is merely an inheritance, or that he is not quite intelligent enough for the White House. A wire photo purporting to show him emerging from a Paris club at 5 a.m. with an Italian princess is enough to start the womanizing rumors again. Is he really qualified for the presidency? How would he use the power if he had it? How great is his capacity for growth? Such unanswerable questions surround Kennedy as much as his family's aura...
...March, when the exodus began, thousands of Indians living in the border areas rushed forward to offer assistance. Today the torrent of men. women and children has so exacerbated tensions that armed guards have been placed at the camps, and West Bengal officials are securing relief camps with barbed-wire fencing...