Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week wireless messages from In dia's Agent S. Sinha in Lhasa reported that the Tibetan capital had not yet been captured. No one could say exactly how far off the Communists were; it could be 60 to more than 200 miles. Newsmen tried to check further with the Tibetan mission in Kalimpong. Lhasa's taciturn envoys said that they knew little of what might be happening at home. Told that the Reds were reported less than 100 miles from his country's capital, Finance Minister Trepon Shakabja, head of the mission, blandly replied: "Well...
...Indian correspondents in New Delhi faced bigger obstacles than Tibet's snow-capped mountains. For one thing, Tibet would let no foreign newsmen in. For another, no news was coming out: the last radio link with Tibet's capital was cut two weeks ago when the wireless operated by India's mission in Lhasa went silent...
...conferred. For the non-Communist world, the sole source of news from the capital was the radio transmitter of the Indian agent stationed there. For seven days it was silent, and the rumor rose that a pro-appeasement lamasery revolution had unseated the young (16) Dalai Lama. Then the wireless spoke again. "Extreme worry," it reported, gripped the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama and his Regent, Takta Rimpoche, must soon choose one of three courses: flight across the southern border, diehard resistance at home, or a deal with the Communist invaders...
...Ambition. Curt LeMay's fierce single-purpose first showed itself back in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Boyhood friends recalled that he paid girls little attention, preferred to spend his leisure building crystal "wireless" sets or prowling through the hills of southern Ohio with a gun and a bowie knife...
...Malcolm has no intention of changing any of that. Says he: "At a concert performance one can perform a new work and be reasonably sure that the people have come to hear it. But on the wireless, you've got to be sure that a majority of 10 million people want to hear what you are playing...