Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bareli. The country around her told the answer: acre after acre of sere, treeless, wind-whipped fields, most of which are worked by harijans (untouchables) who sharecrop but do not own the land. Long miles of highway are untarred. Few people can afford the 300 rupees ($33) needed to wire their homes for minimum lighting provided by two light bulbs. Electric irrigation pumps are rare, and even wells fitted with immemorial Persian wheels are few and far between...
...once, circus hyperbole comes close to fact. At one end of the Gyro-Wheel's arms is a heavy counterweight; at the other is a circular wire-mesh cage 8 ft. in diameter. Bale and his wife Jeanette give the cage a mighty push. As it begins to turn, Bale hops inside, then makes like a hamster in an exercise wheel. As the cage rises, he runs up the inside to help maintain speed. When it reaches the top, Bale backpedals frantically to slow the whooshing descent, reversing again at the bottom to propel himself around the loop once...
Within three minutes the vote total was punched, scanned, electronically sent to a computer bank, fed into its system and moved by high-speed teletype to the nation's wire services and television networks. By the time Perrotta's phone blinked again, hundreds of other students, technicians and supervisors at two locations in New York City were gathering, sorting and sending out the Wisconsin and New York State votes to their customers...
...muted second fiddle to television's dramatic (last week erroneously dramatic) election-night projections, since what it provides is nothing but actual votes. The cooperative was born in the '60s out of television's pressure for late-night vote counts that, network executives felt, the wire services were not collecting fast enough. In 1964 the networks badly botched primary coverage. In a tight Goldwater-Rockefeller race in California, network forecasters, relying on competitively reported returns from the state's 31,000 polling places, ringingly declared both Goldwater and Rockefeller the winner-depending on which channel...
Haunting Presence. As a result, the three networks and two wire services gave up competitive vote counting and formed NES as a nonprofit cooperative under the direction of Associated Press Newsman J. Richard Eimers. By the fall of 1964 Eimers had organized a network of thousands of poll "reporters," plus an election-night headquarters staff of hundreds of students and technicians. Today he still directs the system, haunting each election-night performance with his demanding presence...