Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all know each other, and people wander from table to table greeting friends. Everyone discusses art-art and politics, art and money, art and friendship. Towering above the smoke and the wooden tables, a papier-mache man with chicken-wire hands stares at people as they walk in. The man wears black clothes and one gold carring. One of the waiters built...
...really bothered to use or learn his first name: Students and teachers alike called him simply "Lippert." Even his parents sent mail to "Lippert." Standing a stocky 5-ft., 8-in., with wispy medium-length blonde hair wire-framed glasses and a long flattened nose he didn't look too unusual. Nor did his soft-spoken voice seem strange except for its eerie detachment...
Allan R. Andrews, the Boston Globe reporter to whom Monday's article was attributed, said yesterday that he got the story straight from the United Press International (UPI) wire. A spokesman for UPI said yesterday that "no newsman went out there...
...Soviet propaganda. The bluntness of TASS's bias often works against it. For example, the Soviets in 1963 provided, free of charge, equipment for receiving TASS bulletins to the fledgling Kenyan news agency. The Kenyans, however, soon started using the equipment to receive Britain's Reuters wire service as well. A former Kenyan journalist says he was supposed to give equal play to both news services, but that the TASS material arrived days later than Reuters, and was too late to be usable. The CIA claims that the Soviets" often try to plant loyalists in local broadcasting stations...
...collar convicts. Her home will be the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 47 miles northeast of New York City. Despite its red brick colonial buildings and its playing fields, Bedford Hills is a long way from Madeira. Outside there is a 12-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire; inside there are 360 two-story cellblocks...