Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesian army has set up scores of its barbed-wire-encrusted bunkers to protect vulnerable airstrips and command posts, and light planes scour the rough terrain to search for suspicious activity. To make their search easier, the government is evicting 15,000 resident blacks and creating a ten-mile-wide cordon sanitaire along Rhodesia's 800-mile frontier with the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the springboard for most of the guerrilla activity...
...member of a minority group: he is that one out of a thousand sailors who cannot find what he wants in the catalogues of the big builders." He is a man who shuns complex modern gear that he cannot service himself. He can work with rope or wire or canvas, and the sailmaker's "palm" sits comfortably in his hand. His compass and sextant are instruments to be treated with care and reverence. He can read the tides and the weather, and he knows the movements of the navigator's stars. His library is charts and pilot manuals...
...recent years, the scramble at the start caused another devastating accident. Moments after the starting flag dropped, David ("Salt") Walther got caught in a squeeze midway in the pack and veered so sharply that his car went sailing into a wire-mesh fence in front of the stands, cartwheeled down the track and exploded in a flaming shower of debris. Three other drivers and a dozen spectators were injured. Walther was taken to the hospital in critical condition, with a broken wrist and burns over 40% of his body. The race, halted after the accident, was then postponed when...
Meanwhile Picture Researcher Alice Rose George was busy gathering the Watergate pictures taken by TIME'S photographers, wire services and independent agencies, and by deadline time had assembled some 15,000 shots, from which the pictures published in THE NATION this week were chosen...
Even Saigon, stripped of its barbed wire and military posts, might be seen for what it was: a charming, French-style city of tree-lined boulevards...