Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes a pamphlet from his bookshelf and begins reading a passage from the Rhodesian criminal code: "Anyone is guilty of a criminal offense if he is absent from the farm during working hours, if he becomes intoxicated, if he refuses to obey any command of a master..." The list goes on. The punishment for such offenses ranges from caning and thrashing to two or three months in prison. Anyone unemployed for more then 30 days is also a criminal, subject to work on a farm for three months without pay, to receive "training" in such skills as digging ditches...
...presented with the uncomfortable choice of finding a watering hole other than Mory's or being joined by lady listeners. If that weren't enough, the New York City Health Department after diligent inspection listed the mid-Manhattan Yale Club as in violation of the city health code when it discovered mouse excreta on the premises and splinters in its cutting boards. Quipped Yale Alumnus Dick Cavett ('58): "Next thing we'll hear is that the Yale Bowl has a crack...
June 19. Mardian and Mitchell met with Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy to Mitchell on Nixon's re-election committee, in Mitchell's Washington apartment. Mitchell suggested that Magruder destroy his files on the Watergate wiretapping plan, code-named Gemstone. (Mitchell said, according to LaRue, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, "that it might be a good idea if Mr. Magruder had a fire...
...multinationals' tank of trouble, the Finance Ministry has just published a new "code of good conduct" to define how oil companies should operate in "critical situations." Though the code is by no means restrictive, it clearly indicates that the government feels that oil policy has become too important to be left solely to the oil firms...
There is only one way to tell: by a thorough examination of the phenomena by those who do not express an a priori belief. By those for whom probability is not a mystique but a comprehensible code. By those who have nothing to lose but their skepticism. Until such examiners are allowed to play the psychic game, it is unlikely that the paranormal will escape the ambiguous utterance against it in Leviticus: "Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them ..." And that most wondrous and mysterious of entities, the human mind...