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Although Kameny dismisses the idea that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
...Report on the Core Curriculum suggested such a connection--which would have freshmen sign up for Expos sections corresponding to Core courses they are in. But for a number of reasons--a major one was that Core courses do not assign enough written work to make such a link feasible--Marius rejected the idea, and the standing committee informally decided to drop...
...World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear testing, he served on the Atomic Energy Commission from 1954 to 1959 and also headed the Eisenhower-era "Atoms for Peace" program...
Each college sets its own fees, and they are fairly steep. New York students will pay lona $92 per credit hour (or $828 for the nine-credit course on the Roman Empire), as against $30 at the University of Tennessee. Local colleges also assign each student to tutors who grade student essays and exams...
...embarrassing presidential brother, for example, has developed into a sort of genre. Lyndon Johnson's younger sibling, Sam Houston Johnson, wandered up and down the back stairs of Lyndon's career, drinking too much and now and then writing a bad check. L.B.J. had to assign a Secret Service agent to keep him out of trouble. A rivalry with the leader of the free world played hell with Sam's self-image...