Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what a shame it was, said Kirilyuk, to waste all that valuable experience in cryptography. While waiting for the scholarship, why not get a job in Washington handling codes and cryptography with one of the top U.S. security agencies? Kirilyuk came back several times, sometimes with a Russian companion, and always amiably brought the conversation around to the subject of cryptography...
...Teletype-lined room at Space Technology Laboratories in El Segundo. Calif, gathered a group of tense men. There was a chance that the big transmitter might malfunction and that in its failure it might silence completely its five-watt companion, leaving Pioneer V with no voice at all. Before being sent into space, the big transmitter had been tested rigorously. It had been shaken, spun, heated and cooled. It had survived all such tortures, but no test on earth could duplicate the hostile environment of space...
...spry, bright-eyed man of 75, whose working companion these days is a sweet-faced alley cat with a raucous meow, De Creeft took one sensational detour while still in Paris. It happened one day when "I was sick in the bed." The great flamenco dancer Escudero suddenly burst in and demanded that he make something for a party that would take place that night. De Creeft gazed up at the cold stovepipes that crossed his studio ceiling and, though still muy mal, put together his famous Picador. Almost overnight he was hailed as the founder of a new school...
...took fright at the world 19 years before and hid out in a Bronx cemetery. Dodging caretakers and sleeping in a mausoleum, amusing himself by reading and working out chess problems, he has found armistice, if not peace. Jonathan Rebeck sees and talks with ghosts, but his only live companion is a truculent raven who steals food for him, and whose conversation runs more to "The hell you say" than "Nevermore." As the book opens, Rebeck is gnawing a baloney the raven has liberated ("Damn near ruptured myself," the bird complains), but his meal is disturbed by a funeral procession...
...debenture. Morrissey wants to fold Trumpet and its sister magazine. Gentlewoman, and save the firm's other, money-making divisions, thereby boosting the company stock and setting up a multimillion-dollar capital gain for himself. In the Cottier situation. Gentlewoman was Woman's Home Companion, and the Morrissey role was played by smooth Financier J. Patrick Lannan, who with other industrialists held debentures convertible into 600,000 shares of common stock at $5 a share. The week Cottier s folded the stock sold for around $5, currently sells for about $25. In the novel Ridge Warren (who little...