Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DURING the Korean War, brainwashing of U.S. prisoners by Chinese and North Koreans produced alarming numbers of forced "confessions," collaborators and turncoats. As a result, President Eisenhower issued an executive order in 1955 establishing a Code of Conduct for U.S. servicemen. Among its provisions...
Today, only one pay system remains alive-but not well-in Hartford, Conn. When the viewer tunes in at night to station WHCT, the image on the screen looks like a shattered mirror, and the audio twitters like a rewinding tape recorder. Subscribers interested in the show dial a code number on an un scrambling device perched atop their set. Automatically, the picture and sound come in clear and loud, and a tape inside the decoding box totes up a charge of 50? to $1.50 a show. Every month, the tape is pulled out of the box as a statement...
...STOCK TRADING: Many U.S. investors use secret accounts to play the stock market, cabling or mailing instructions to their Swiss banks to buy and sell securities through brokerage houses in New York. Another trick is to phone a New York broker designated by a Swiss bank and use a code name to place an order. The broker executes the order for the account of the Swiss bank and winds up with no record of the real buyer's identity. Since foreign banks are not taxed at all on trading profits-and at a maximum rate of only...
...name is the code message used by Japanese pilots over Pearl Harbor to signal their mission's success...
...Long recounted that a major studio executive said to him during the summer, "We don't want to make good pictures out here--only moneymakers with as little risk as possible." Neither Lang nor I could think of a single working director here who actively opposes this true production code: "They've all given up," Lang said shaking his head more in irritation than sadness, "Nobody in Hollywood fights anymore...