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...decoding disks at random so that yesterday's code may give scant clue to today's. Even so, influential U.S. cryptologists at the time believed that an examination of the Russian equipment would increase the possibility that the U.S. might finally succeed in breaking Soviet codes, a feat that in 1968 had still defied the best efforts of the American intelligence community...
...demands that he explain this "miracle." To calm her he comments that "Things do lie at times. At the fair I saw a naked woman walking along the ceiling." But, she retorts, "This was not done with mirrors." Cocteau's French text has her say that the feat has "nothing to do with a machine." Machines, in this case, suggest the surreal aspects of the play more directly, anticipating the striking automatism of Death. Machines convey more than a link to the inhuman realm of the mirror; they also elaborate on the idea that the contemporary world has tried...
Fisher won all four matches. Said Barnaby, "He was outstanding. Being undefeated in the tournament is quite a feat--even at number four...
REUBIN ASKEW, 46. First elected Governor of Florida on a tax reform theme in 1970, the former state legislator delivered on his promises and won a smashing re-election last year to be come the state's first successive two-term Governor. The feat was particularly remarkable because he favored busing. A native of Oklahoma who neither smokes nor drinks, Askew is a Southern liberal who has raised corporate taxes, repealed var ious consumer levies and pushed hard to help the elderly and protect Florida's endangered environment. Soft-spoken and handsome, he was an effective keynote speaker...
...with so much of Chou's career, the circumstances surrounding his latest feat were extraordinary. Chou stage-managed his victory not from his usual office in Chungnanhai, Peking's government quarter, but from his hospital suite. Suddenly and unexpectedly, he emerged from seclusion to preside over the first meeting in ten years of the National People's Congress, China's highest parliamentary body. Held two weeks ago in absolute secrecy at Peking's Great Hall of the People, the congress ratified a series of decisions that had been made in equal secrecy at a plenary...