Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen or so cities, factories, communes and schools whose reason for being seems to be the welcoming of friendly travelers. Leys takes the tour, finds that aside from a few carefully preserved historical monuments, China's cultural treasures have been sealed off behind curtains of barbed wire, converted to barracks, or utterly destroyed by the Red Guards during their Cultural Revolution. Leys' long list of such monuments reads like a catalogue of a vanished past. Certainly it belies the propaganda claim that Peking has carefully preserved the country's ancient heritage...
...role as point man for social change brought him and his family ostracism, vituperation, cross burnings and death threats. With Johnson obviously in mind, Alabama Governor George Wallace last year groused that "thugs and federal judge have just about taken charge of this country" and suggested a "political barbed-wire enema" for such interlopers...
...foundered because of insufficient laws. The conviction of one man, accused of stealing confidential information from a Federal Energy Administration computer in Maryland, was possible only because the thief had dialed into a system from his office a few miles away in Virginia. He was prosecuted under an interstate wire-fraud statute. In response, Senator Abraham Ribicoff has introduced a bill prohibiting misuse of federal computers or any data-processing machine affecting interstate commerce. The bill would impose stiff punishments: up to 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Says Justice Department Prosecutor Tate De Weese: "This bill...
...industry in the West. Of the large number of computers installed in the U.S. (300,000, v. an estimated 22,000 in the Soviet Union), fully three-quarters of them are engaged in commercial operations-everything from billing credit-card accounts and writing paychecks to sending flowers by wire and keeping baseball statistics up to date...
With deadlines at hand and the normally clattering wire service tickers standing mute, editors all over the world had visions of gaping holes in their newspapers. In Houston, Post Night Editor Ernie Williams fretted: "I had only three paragraphs on the downing of the helicopter in Korea, and five graphs on the blackout. But how was I going to put giant heads on stories like that?" Fortunately for Williams, the A.P. wire started moving just at deadline, and he was able to flesh out his two top stories. For Cincinnati Post Sports Editor Tom Tuley, the biggest problem...