Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started walking into the desert, looking for any slight rise of fall in the land, or any bush over seven inches high, or any other sort of sleeping place. I climbed over a barbed wire fence and headed out across some farmer's land, my flashlight the only light for miles and my breathing the only sound in the night. Except for the mooing which I heard after about a mile--soon followed by the sound of cows running across my path about 40 yards ahead...
...course the city's television stations have expanded their trivia-packed local newscasts by adding some news and even more trivia, and the four new typographically wretched strike papers are throbbing with wire-service copy that the regular dailies would have spurned. But for New Yorkers used to the Daily News's outrageously witty headlines, the Times's impeccably orotund dispatches from Ouagadougou and Timbuktu and the Post's wonderfully inaccurate gossip, there is an aching void. "They're like children," says Political Consultant David Garth of the three struck dailies. "You don't know how much you love them...
Meyer ran a tough race himself. He was running sixth most of the way until he caught up to Columbia's Wally McNally, ran stride for stride with him for 500 yards, and outkicked him by a moth's eyelash at the wire...
...Elvis did, and does, and so I went as a reporter on the Elvis Presley Memorial Bus Tour, courtesy of a Connecticut newspaper that could just as well have used wire reports from Memphis, but for some reason wanted a man on the spot. I boarded the bus with a typewriter in one hand and a bag in the other, to be greeted by the trip leader, a 45-year-old widow who hadn't left western Massachusetts since the early '60s. She invited me to sit down next to her. I obliged, and as the bus pulled...
...room around us rattled with the sounds of 100 typewriters, red telephones and wire services, all creating tax revolt stories. Dukakis was leading a horde of press affiliates through the press room with him. Beer continued, "It's very hard for anyone, even a sharp guy like Dukakis, to get a handle on the bureaucracy. Party decomposition--you're not talking to this party and that group, you're meeting people en masse...