Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...military authorities in the Philippines have called inaccurate a report (TIME, June 5) that Huks "boldly raided the U.S. air base at Clark Field" a few weeks ago. In an attempt to enter the central fenced-in area of the U.S. air base, unidentified prowlers did cut the fence wire, but were driven off by U.S. gunfire. Clark Field has had other and more serious troubles, however. For many months approaching airplanes, ground patrols and individual Clark Field personnel have been repeatedly fired on by bushwhackers lurking at night on the edges of the sprawling military reservation. Several U.S. airmen...
...past year Canal Zone electricians have also found the charred remains of kinkajous, opossums, sloths and monkeys along their wires. A few years ago two parakeets exchanged what has been called history's hottest kiss on the trans-isthmus high-tension line. The parakeets, one on a grounded wire and the other on a live one, touched bills, doused the lights in the Zone. Linemen found them next morning-two tiny fried fowl with bills still touching...
...urged to knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...
...Profitable Proposition. In a box marked "Western Union Agents,they found a list, of 200 Western Union employees, many branch-office managers. Records indicated that agents had been transmitting horse-bets to the syndicate in return for a 25% commission. The seized records included a copy of a wire from an East Coast Western Union manager to the syndicate: "I believe I could develop some business for you here and in surrounding towns. Just what kind of a proposition do you offer?" Another manager was so grateful for his commission on bets that he offered to send a crate...
...Before breakfast at his home on the beachfront in Santa Monica, Zanuck begins a chain-smoking day with one of his eight-inch cigars-the first of 20-and a phone call on his private wire to the studio to find out how movies-his own and competitors'-are grossing around the country. After a shave by Sam ("The Barber") Silver, who comes out from the studio, Zanuck drives his green Cadillac ten miles to the lot, attacks production schedules, mail, memos and telegrams until 1 p.m. Then he takes a sawed-off polo mallet, which he uses...