Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flat and evil-looking fish, of the genus Torpedo lies quivering on a wet napkin. A wire extends from the napkin to a nearby basin of water. A man holds a finger in the basin and another finger in another basin. A second man holds one finger in the second basin and another finger in a third basin. And so on-until the eighth man, with his finger in the seventh basin, touches a wire to the back of the fish, a ray. Then, although none of the men is touching the fish or any other person, all of them...
...woman who wants to be chic starts by having her hair stiffened with perfumed animal fat; the hair is then whitened with powder and molded over an egg-shaped wire frame usually 2-to 3-feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...
...editorial staff numbers only 13 and the paper uses no wire service copy, but it still produces major pieces on controversial subjects. Last year it launched a drive against black crime that, according to Publisher Procope, "wasn't popular because people don't like criticism," and recently it carried a series on rent control that backed the real estate operators. "We caught hell for it, but we got a discussion going," says Procope. A marketing man before taking over in 1974, Procope, 42, believes "the cry of the '70s for blacks is economic development and viability." That...
According to all the expert predictions, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan will battle right down to the wire. The California challenger stands to win six or seven of the nine primaries this week and next. Then on June 8, the President should easily take Ohio and New Jersey, but the big leap probably will be made that day by the winner in California, where former Governor Reagan lately has moved ahead. On the Democratic side, Jimmy Carter should win three or four of this week's primaries, then run behind Governor Jerry Brown in California but do well...
...late-night calls to reporters once made her phone line the livest wire in Washington. But now Martha Mitchell, suffering from multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer, and harried, is letting her attorney do the talking. "She is desperately ill, without friends or funds," asserted Lawyer William C. Herman in New York State Supreme Court last week, where he is attempting to collect nine months of back alimony from Martha's estranged husband, former Attorney General John Mitchell. While appealing his conviction for Watergate crimes, Mitchell has not only maintained a private chauffeur, said Herman, but recently received...