Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Munich, legal experts of 27 nations, gathered by the U.N.-sponsored International Civil Aviation Organization, were writing an authoritative law of the air. Basically, the new code's most important provision would give priority of jurisdiction to the country in which the aircraft was registered, though under certain conditions the nation in whose airspace the crime was committed might claim the right to prosecute. The new law would also give pilots authority equivalent to that of ships' captains on the high seas. They could seize and hold suspects in the air and, when necessary, deputize...
Using the code name "Henry," Morgan played such a convincing game, according to Castro, that Trujillo gave him $78,750 in Miami to buy arms, sent three boatloads of weapons. When the conspirators set a target date for an uprising in Havana, Castro called a halt. The top 40 plotters were summoned to Morgan's home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most...
...think the trouble is, Doc?", the physician simply presses more buttons. The recorded data are fed into an electronic computer. The cybernetic brain compares the patient's symptoms with those of diseases it has previously learned, discards all but three, offers these to the doctor by code number. A couple of questions enable the doctor to rule out two, and he has his diagnosis. But there are several ways of treating this disease, none 100% effective and all with some risk. The physician punches more buttons, lets the computer decide mathematically which treatment has the best chance of success...
Disciplined Support. Plotters can count on no broad base for revolt. Peasants in the back country are apathetic or mildly progovernment. They eagerly inform on armed rebels for a $1,000-a-head reward. Workers in the towns-25% of the population-have a paternalistic labor code, a 20?-an-hour minimum wage, good housing, medical care-and a healthy fear of the dictator's police...
Classicists have violated the customary translators' code of leaving juicy passages corseted in the original Latin. This version, by a translator who understands the high art of low humor, is conspicuously uncorseted and, what is more unusual, funny...