Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finds that the huge Parallax Corporation is recruiting potential killers by a set of complex psychological tests designed to isolate psychopathic traits. He masquerades as a misfit, passes the tests, and is ushered into the mysterious corporate headquarters for further tests. They seat him in a large chair and wire him for blood pressure and visceral reactions, then they begin showing him a movie. The film--brilliantly done--is like the inside of George Rockwall's (former head of American Nazi Party) mind. Quick-cutting from the flag to a domineering father to bullets, to a penis, to Klu Klux...
...Down to the Wire...
...abusive slogans at one another and hostile crowds poured into the streets of Portuguese cities as the confrontation between moderates and Communists intensified late last week. In Oporto, the country's second largest city, 75,000 Socialists rallied to proclaim their support of democracy. Communist roadblocks of barbed wire and nail-studded planks failed to prevent the mass gathering. Meanwhile, about 35 miles north of Lisbon, angry mobs sacked the offices and burned the files of the Communist Party in both Lourinhà and Cadaval. At week's end, amid rumors of an impending coup, the country...
...aggressive, but I don't consider myself abrasive. I'm direct." When he is not on the prowl, he can be amiable and modest. But he has seldom been off the prowl. Schorr started quietly enough as a print reporter in 1934-seven years for minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington until 1966. He married late (at 50) and skips the Washington social whirl in favor of his two small children, family life and work. His energies are boundless...
...Zutty") Singleton, 77, innovative jazz drummer; in Manhattan. Zutty (Creole patois for cute) grew up musically in the hothouse of pre-World War I New Orleans jazz, developing a driving, fiercely rhythmic style on the snare and bass drums and was one of the first jazz drummers to use wire brushes. Until the early '30s, he played regularly with Louis Armstrong and later recorded with Charlie (Bird) Parker and Dizzy Gillespie...