Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, have been known to check their picks against Martin's. "There's nothing mysterious about setting the line," Martin insists. During the regular season, when spreads are selected for the 13 games each weekend, Martin watches games on TV, consults the U.P.I, sports wire at Churchill Downs for news of injuries, and reads newspapers flown in from N.F.L. home-team cities...
Paper Plugs. In 1970, inspired by a visit to the now defunct Manhattan rock emporium Fillmore East (where he wore paper earplugs), Fox decided to reach out for the large youth audience by giving Bach a psychedelic transfusion. He added a ton and a half of prisms, lenses, wire, plastic, glass and crystal, installed a light show and his Rodgers Touring Organ-a 4,000-lb. electronic monster with 56 stops and 144 speakers-and opened in the Fillmore with an all-Bach recital. Surrounded by a swirl of colored lights, he swept in on the chariot of the colossal...
Dawn is still some time away when newsmen in radio stations across the country begin to comb the wire-service bulletins and newspapers for the makings of their early programs. Their reach is enormous,* but the product is generally predictable. At its frequent worst, radio news consists of clatters and bleeps strung together by an announcer who has learned to rip and read wire-service copy. Even the morning shows of larger independent stations and network affiliates rarely rise above an intelligent presentation of the moment's headlines...
...Nixon's labyrinth in cash flow and purchases, unloaded enough figures to gag a roomful of accountants. Editors for the most part followed suit, publishing an overwhelming array of disparate stories and arcane tables. The Milwaukee Journal and Miami Herald, for example, presented a kaleidoscope of summaries, texts, wire-service rundowns and assorted sidebars. The New York Times devoted 31 columns to the event, including four front-page stories and a two-page inside summary of 50-odd documents and records...
...paper prepared to take full advantage of wire-service advances is the Detroit News (circ. 683,452), the nation's largest evening paper. Like many other metropolitans, it has had increasing trouble in distribution as its audience spreads farther into the suburbs. The News' answer: a $42 million modernization program that includes an automated printing plant 23 miles north of Detroit. It is plugged in electronically to editorial headquarters downtown...