Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed. This year, a sheep's heart also failed. The great apes are too scarce, and too reluctant to breed in captivity to be a source of supply. Before animals' hearts can escape rejection, researchers will have to outwit the genetic code and raise special breeds-a matter of years...
...first in Hollywood history. "We don't want to legally pass judgment on art," explained M.P.A.A. President Jack Valenti. "What we're trying to do is educate the parents." All Mom and Dad have to learn is four letters: G, M, R and X. G is the code's symbol for suggested for general audiences; M: suggested for mature audiences; R: restricted-persons under 16 not admitted unless accompanied by a parent or guardian; and X: persons under 16 not to be admitted...
Hollow Tie Clasp. In the end, it was his audacity that led to his conviction. When a disaffected KGB agent betrayed him, he was caught red-handed with the tools of his trade, including hol-lowed-out cuff links and other secret-message containers, a code book, a coded telegram, microfilm equipment and maps of U.S. defense areas. "It's incredible," Abel's defense attorney James B. Donovan told him, "you violated most of the basic rules of espionage with all that paraphernalia lying around...
Drake's adventure involved a week of swift, secret transatlantic negotiations with the "Lions" and "Tigers"-code names for Atlantic Richfield and Sinclair. If everything works out, British Petroleum will buy an Atlantic Richfield refinery in Texas, a Sinclair refinery in Pennsylvania, and a string of 5,600 Sinclair gas stations in eleven Eastern states and the District of Columbia. The deal hangs on Justice Department approval of a pending merger of Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield, which now may well pick up speed. One Justice hang-up has been that the merger would lessen competition in the East, where...
...even to good films. Vivian Kurz in Andrew Meyer's Match Girl watches a chunk of Vertigo on TV, and a sensible spectator gets irritated when Meyer decides to return to his own film. The same holds for Peter Bogdanovich's Targets: even the glimpse of Hawks' The Criminal Code Bogdanovich shows us is enough to persuade that it has Targets beat by a mile...