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Long Overdue. Ultra must surely be one of the best-kept military secrets of all time. A ban even on references to Ultra was enforced in Britain until this spring. Texts of deciphered messages are still locked up in Whitehall. One result is that Winterbotham, now 76, who served as the R.A.F.'s representative in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, had to assemble this book largely from memory. "I am the only person alive who knows the whole story." He told TIME, "I didn't want my memory to start going before I got it all down...
...paper. The works, both abstract and realistic, are small and intimate in feeling and vary greatly in quality. Still, the show is an insight into some of the types of art being done today and an excellent reason to visit the Drawing Study, one of the Fogg's best-kept secrets...
...best-kept secret of the affair was Anne's gown-a white silk princess-line dress with flowing medieval sleeves. The 15 seamstresses, who made the gown for an off-the-rack fashion house that Anne has long favored over the royal dressmakers, had each sewn into the hem a lock of her hair. Tucked into the bridal bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and stephanotis was "something old" -a sprig of myrtle grown on the Isle of Wight from a sprig of Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet-and a bit of white heather for good...
...attack on Sinai and the Golan Heights was carried out with a finesse and synchronization that not even most Arabs suspected that the Arabs possessed. For one thing, details of the invasion were the best-kept Arab military secret in 25 years; combat commanders were not informed of the upcoming attack until they had need to know. Both Israeli and U.S. intelligence picked up signs of gathering forces, but could not bring themselves to believe that the Arabs were actually going to attack. It was only ten hours before the assault began that Israel finally concluded that the Arabs meant...
...year membership last summer. He has taught the history of jazz at the Manhattan School of Music, and is working toward a Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Massachusetts. He has made more than 30 recordings (some of which, he concedes, "are among the best-kept secrets in jazz"), written a dozen books on jazz piano playing and composed 300 songs...