Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American press so mediocre? A large part of the explanation can be traced to the structure of the newsgathering business. Two giant wire services--the Associated Press and the United Press International--provide most American newspapers with most of their regional, national and international news. A typical newspaper front page consists of 80 per cent wire service stories, with one or two local stories by the paper's own staff tossed in for good measure...
...Revolution listings are compiled by Crimson editor Daniel A. Swanson, who draws upon various and numerous sources, including The New York Times, both major wire services, and a variety of other periodicals and books. The facts are of course accurate; the interpretation given them reflects the author's personal views and not the views of the entire paper. --D.A.S...
...businessman who refuses his subway seat to the cripple thrusting a certificate of disability into his face. The street hawker of lottery tickets, with 50 mark bills stuck around hat band and belt, and a sign announcing the "security" to be gained from the lottery. Lapses of taste: barbed wire has been strung up to keep pedestrians from crossing medians and to protect flowerbeds. One would have thought, somehow...
...somehow it is always the right who are interviewed for American newspapers and wire services. Hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants regularly clog the streets in Chile's capital, Santiago, to demonstrate their support for their Allende government, but their voices are never heard in the United States. Yet let a handful of middle class women bang some cooking pots and wail about prices, and cries of anguish about the subversion of Chilean liberties emanate from sensible American observers...
...least in Western eyes) to Tutankhamon's gold mask. This is partly due to its extraordinary substance and workmanship: a complete body-armor of 2,156 slips of green and mutton-fat jade, each no bigger than a matchbook cover, intricately sewn and bound together with gold wire. Its archaeological interest is unique: ancient Chinese texts mentioned jade burial armor as the special privilege of imperial blood, but Tu Wan's shroud-together with its twin, made for her husband, the Prince Liu Cheng-is the first such suit yet unearthed. But that aside, the shroud...