Word: existed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Park, and instructions on the dos and don'ts of espionage. There was a spooky man named Anderson, whose name was really something else. Geogiev was supposed to have met him time and again at addresses in Manhattan that, according to the current city directory, do not exist. The CIA, he said, supplied him with all of the spy's normal accouterments: treated paper, invisible ink, a miniature tape recorder and microphone designed as a tie clasp, code books and a tiny shortwave radio...
...looking for a student who theoretically should exist in every department," says Classicist David Grene. "I don't think we get better students than the departments, but we get fewer bad, dull ones. The onus of the work is on the student. He must teach himself...
...Last month, when Castroite terrorists tried to wreck the presidential election, Defense Minister General Antonio Briceño Linares went on radio and TV with an election-eve speech: "There will be no disorder, there will be no civil war. Only the will of the majority of Venezuelans will exist." And to convince the terrorists, the military brought in 25,000 troops...
...believes that the fierce heat of returning sunlight may have released gases from the lunar interior. At a Dallas conference on newly discovered astronomical objects last week, Nobel Chemist Dr. Harold Urey suggested that the gas may have contained carbon in the form of two-atom molecules that cannot exist on earth. If further evidence proves that the spots really do exist and are indeed caused by eruptions of gas from the moon's interior, they will present one more difficulty for would-be lunar explorers...
...ploy. "How many political systems have come and gone since Sophocles wrote his plays?" he asks with the air of a man asking the unanswerable question. Far from swallowing his traditional cigar in chagrin, the CIA man briskly points out that only seven of Sophocles' 100 plays still exist. The rest were destroyed by the forces of war and political rivalry. With irrefutable logic, he finally gets the uncommitted aesthete to agree that "art is long-provided the barbarians don't get their hands on it." The guy can shoot...