Word: pis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...linked to the aircraft's navigational gear in order to record precise locations-and trip the camera shutters at just the right millisecond. On return to Udorn, automatic machines swiftly process the film in trailers set up beside the runway, and highly skilled (and suspicious) photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle tracks around a supposedly downed bridge. "It's all a battle of wits between us and Ho's people," says...
...hurt by the poor technical quality of the tapes. Distortion was evident in places and the entire tape collection seemed hurriedly prepared. M. Peusseur later substantiated this suspicion and stated that he was going to "destroy the tape immediately." For those who were not able to come, tant pis...
Fonder Memories. Top of the list for most camera-toting visitors is a version of the famous Brussels marble Manneken-Pis fountain statue and the spectacular 104-ft.-long Neptune Pool, kept a constant 70° while Hearst lived. The pool was last used as a set for Spartacus, and it required no added props. As laid out by Hearst's architect, Julia Morgan, it is surrounded by two Etruscan-style colonnades, backed by a Greco-Roman temple, and fronted by a marble Birth of Venus. Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense...
...halting English, a Moslem telegraph operator in the Middle East tapped out on the telex: "Is it correct Kennedy killed pis?" When New York replied, "Yes, an hour ago," the Moslem signed off, "How sorrowful...
...Brussels was the scene of another indignity last week when student pranksters during a blizzard kidnaped the legendary statue of Mannckcn-Pis from its fountain near city hall. When police later recovered it, a Brussels councilor described the indelicate statue as the city's "most cherished patrimony...