Word: cards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised about the novel's hero, Physicist Sebastian Bloch, in whom readers will find it hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries no party card. Young Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably calls the atom...
...Post-card ballots revealed yesterday that a majority of the 152 Faculty members responding to a Presidential Preference Poll would nominate Adlai E. Stevenson and Nelson A. Rockefeller as opposing candidates for the Presidency...
Although he can get a library card its spectacular growth. Although great progress has been made, the Russian field, Shulman points out, and can meet academic and governmental officials, he has no chance for protracted research...
Driven to a nearby building on Vorovskovo Street, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Langelle produced his diplomatic card, claimed his diplomatic immunity from arrest. He demanded the right to call his embassy. The five Russian agents laughed, told him that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then one Russian searched Langelle's topcoat, claimed to find a notebook, which Langelle had never seen before. Sure enough, when the Russian applied a handy chemical solution to its pages, he found invisible ink notes on Soviet secrets. The ploy: the notebook looked like prefabricated evidence for a sure-to-convict espionage trial...
...Mistake." Undisturbed by this, Miraglia went to Havana, checked into the Habana Hilton. On his story that he had "lost" his credit card, proved by showing a shoe store receipt with the credit-card number, he cashed $850 in checks to cover his hotel bills, and flew back to New York. While trying to cash a $120 check at the Plaza, he was recognized, arrested, booked for grand larceny...