Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more than the CIA, the National Security Agency prides itself on its secrecy and its security. Headquartered behind an electrified triple barbed-wire fence at Fort Meade, Md., NSA is the agency that formulates U.S. codes and tries to crack enemy codes. Behind the barbed-wire curtain last week hummed an unaccustomed turmoil of alarm: two NSA employees had disappeared...
...based, the trio got a 1954 Nobel Prize. Harvard recognized Dr. Enders' greatness by naming him a full professor in 1956. Perpetual Fame. In 1953 Enders asked Dr. Thomas Peebles, assistant in his lab at Children's Hospital in Boston, whether he would like to take a crack at measles. Peebles would and did. First he needed some measles virus to work with. He thought he was getting it from measles-stricken students at the Fay School in nearby Southboro. But his first cultures turned up only cold-sore viruses or nothing at all. Then, from the blood...
Last week Premier Michel Debré rose in the French Assembly and proclaimed that the time had come to crack down on the home distillers. He had found it impossible to police more than 2,100,000 Frenchmen holding home-distilling permits; in some departments, there is a home still for every other adult male, with a gallon and a half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have...
...preaches against graft and corruption.'' Even as Garcia gathered top Nacionalistas on his yacht to celebrate his victory, hard-working Finance Secretary Aytona was canceling an order for machinery because he discovered that a relative of his own worked for the importer and was starting to crack down on illegal tobacco imports. Said he, giving away perhaps more than he intended: "I have a job to do, and I'll accomplish nothing by quitting. But until I've finished, I have to live with the devil...
...Chris von Saltza, 16, a seasoned, polished veteran and the chief U.S. Olympic hope in the shorter freestyle distances, who first thrashed to a new U.S. record of 1 min. 1.6 sec. in the 100-meter freestyle, returned to crack another in the 400-meter freestyle (4 min. 46.9 sec.), broke a third by swimming the 200-meter freestyle...