Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...push" behind the $100.000 spent on sod and seeding for the grass in the Yard. Bernard K. Keohon. B&G supervisor of Grounds, said this week, adding that the University had to pay $2500 for new shrubs in the Yard, new wood stakes and "costly wire" to protect the grass in the Yard...
...delegates were representatives of 60 print and broadcast organizations from 24 countries, including the four major international wire services (A.P., U.P.I., Reuters and Agence France Presse). They were drawn together by their common opposition to the restrictive aspects of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's proposals to regulate the world's press through a plan called the New World Information Order. By the time they ended their two-day session, the conferees had issued a toughly worded Declaration of Talloires. While pledging "cooperation in all genuine efforts to expand the free flow of information," they...
Outgoing French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who escaped a terrorist bomb in Corsica last month, sent a wire to the Vatican expressing "profound emotion," and he obviously did not exaggerate his feelings. An associate who was conferring with Giscard when the news came reported that the French President, who is noted for his icy reserve,' experienced "an enormous shock." Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told reporters: "I am too shocked for words. What more...
Cooke's Tale The newsroom clatter of our medium-sized California daily diminished as reporters gathered around the wire machine, watching in disbelief as the incredible story unfolded of Janet Cooke's fictional article about '"Jimmy" for the Washington Post [April 27]. I cringe and wait for the person who, while I am on my next assignment, looks me in the eye and says, "Why don't you just make it up? The Washington Post does...
After moving from Mexico to the bomb-pocked G.D.R. in 1948 with his mother Alma, half brother Stefan and stepfather Bodo Uhse, a highly acclaimed Socialist writer, Agee begins to observe with a foreigner's freshness. He remembers the early Iron Curtain: a chicken-wire fence in an old couple's garden, preventing imperialist rabbits of the British Zone from devouring the Voik's lettuce. He recalls the angst of a zealous Red poet when Khrushchev denounced Stalin: "In a fit of self-loathing he wished to be a lumberjack in some remote country like Norway. Very...